From Fox News: Rob Reiner and his wife Michele died due to multiple sharp force injuries, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiners office.
Other significant conditions contributed to their deaths, the initial report said. Medical examiners determined Dec. 14 as the day the Reiners died, and listed their deaths as homicides.
Rob and his wife Michele were found dead Sunday inside their Brentwood home around 3:30 p.m.
Nick Reiner, their son, was arrested on Sunday night and booked on suspicion of murder. He was with the double homicide of his parents on Tuesday.
According to some reports, the longtime couple was killed in their bedroom.
Daily Mail reports:
The couple were found slain on Sunday afternoon after Romy was called over by a massage therapist who had arrived at the residence but could not get in.
A source close to the investigation told the Daily Mail that they had their throats slashed and were killed in their bed.
Nick’s attorney, Alan Jackson, spoke to the press after court.
“First of all, and most importantly, this is a devastating tragedy that has befallen the Reiner family,” Jackson said. “We all recognize that, our hearts go out to the entire Reiner family. There are very, very complex and serious issues that are associated with this case that needs to be thoroughly but very carefully dealt with, and examined and looked at and analyzed.”
According to Duncan Levin, a high-profile lawyer who once defended Harvey Weinstein, there doesn’t appear to be any smoking-gun evidence against Nick.
“Based on what’s been made public, this looks like a case built largely on inference — timeline reconstruction, alleged access, and post-incident conduct — rather than direct eyewitness or confession evidence,” Levin explained. “There has been reporting about a hotel room where significant blood was allegedly found after the killings, and if that is forensically tied to the victims and the timing, it could matter significantly of course.”
“But the legal question isn’t whether something looks incriminating in isolation; it’s whether the physical evidence, forensic results, and sequence of events fit together in a way that excludes other reasonable explanations,” he continued. “That is a demanding burden, and at this stage, it remains untested.”
The Los Angeles Medical Examiner’s Office has revealed the causes of death for both Rob and Michele Reiner: MULTIPLE Sharp Force Injuries.
Body Status for both is now ‘ ready for release.’
So sad. @LAmag pic.twitter.com/emR91GEzz6
— Lauren Conlin (@conlin_lauren) December 17, 2025
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