Nick Reiner spent seventeen years with help arriving at his door, and by his own account in interviews given long before any of this, he kept leaving it standing there.

His own account of it is on the record long before any of this. A December 2015 People interview has him putting his first rehab around age fifteen, with roughly seventeen stays behind him by twenty-two. The Hollywood Reporter has reported that figure as some eighteen. In the LA Times that same year he described refusing to go at all, or checking in and then walking out to live on the street. He framed homelessness as what it cost to do recovery his own way instead of theirs.

Somebody carried that. Records reported by Fox affiliates show a yearlong conservatorship, which means a family asked a judge to take legal control of an adult. Court filings say siblings Jake and Romy Reiner initially agreed to fund attorney Alan Jackson and then reversed, and ABC News reports it isn't publicly known why.

There is also a complication nobody should skip. According to Variety, trustee Paul Kanin has been unwilling to release trust funds over unresolved concerns about Reiner's capacity to make sound decisions and adequately protect his own interests. A new trustee, Jodi Montgomery, has since been appointed.

He is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, has pleaded not guilty, and no motive has been officially confirmed. Tony Brueski contrasts all of it with Lindsay Clancy, who went looking for help and was sent home in a day. A Hidden Killers investigation. The petition itself includes a line worth reading exactly as written. It says Nick loved his parents, and he is devastated by their deaths. That sits in the court record alongside a request for the money those same parents set aside for him. Holding both of those at once is closer to the truth of this case than picking whichever one fits an argument better.

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Nick Reiner had help brought to him for seventeen years and kept walking out of it. Lindsay Clancy went looking for help and couldn't get anybody to keep her more than a day. Same three words on both files.

His father directed a movie about it. Nick co-wrote the film, it premiered at a festival with the two of them sitting there, and he told NPR that making it was part of his recovery. He said people who go through addictions of all kinds are kind of hard to love.

Then a petition from a jail cell. Court filings show Reiner asked a judge to release the trust his parents created for him, reported at more than one and a half million dollars by Variety and NBC and at one point seven million by Rolling Stone. He wanted it to re-hire attorney Alan Jackson and to buy basic support items at the commissary.

On the other coast, Clancy and her ex-husband Patrick both filed lawsuits accusing her medical providers of failing to properly diagnose and treat her condition. There are named parties. There are signatures on a discharge.

He has pleaded not guilty and no motive has ever been officially confirmed. Her jury has not returned a verdict. Tony Brueski explains why treating these two as one story is how every person who made a decision in either of them stays anonymous. A Hidden Killers investigation. Underneath both cases is a condition experts covering the Clancy trial put at roughly one to two women out of every thousand who give birth. Rare enough that most clinicians aren't looking for it. Common enough to happen thousands of times a year in this country. That combination is how something stays misunderstood for decades, and why the conversation about it keeps getting merged with a case that has nothing to do with it.

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Nine months after Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home, this episode goes deeper into the detail that's stuck with Hidden Killers listeners more than any other: the fight at the party hours before it happened.
According to reporting, Nick Reiner and his father argued at a holiday gathering the night before the killings. Guests reportedly noticed his disheveled appearance and erratic behavior. Everyone went home. Tony Brueski and the team trace Nick's reported history of violent outbursts back to childhood, the addiction struggles he spoke about publicly for years, and the ways compassionate, engaged parents can still end up unable to hold a firm boundary with a child they love.
This episode also walks through where the case stands legally. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder with special circumstances. His defense team has changed once already, the case has moved through nine months of continuances, and both sides are now working through an enormous volume of evidence ahead of a preliminary hearing set for September. The show addresses the insanity defense already being discussed publicly, and why California's legal standard for it succeeds in under one percent of cases, even ones involving a documented mental health history.
There's also a closer look at what the Reiner family's surviving children have said publicly since the killings, and what it means to grieve two parents while also watching a sibling face the possibility of life in prison or the death penalty.
For everyone following this case closely, this episode covers what's confirmed, what's still speculation, and what comes next.
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