Medical Examiner Releases Rob And Michele Reiner’s Trigger Of Loss of life | JP
The official cause of death for Rob and Michele Reiner has been released.
On Wednesday the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office has released the cause of death for Rob and Michele Reiner.
In the newly released report the Medical Examiner’s Office revealed the official death date and that the couple death stemmed from multiple sharp wounds.
CBS News had more details to share from the medical examiner’s report:
Filmmaker Rob Reiner and his wife Michele died of “multiple sharp force injuries,” the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office reported Wednesday. This comes after authorities had previously confirmed that the couple were fatally stabbed.
Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were found dead Sunday afternoon at their home in the upscale L.A. neighborhood of Brentwood, police said.
Their son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances in their slayings, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced Tuesday. The charges include “a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon, a knife,” according to the DA’s office.
Investigators believe Nick Reiner fatally stabbed his parents early Sunday morning before fleeing, prosecutors said.
The bodies of Rob and Michele Reiner were found at about 3:40 p.m. Sunday, police said, and Nick was found and arrested in the Exposition Park neighborhood of South L.A. at approximately 9:15 p.m. Sunday. Authorities have yet to provide a possible motive in the killings or what led them to arrest Nick Reiner.
Two sources who attended a party Saturday night at Conan O’Brien’s home, where Rob and Nick Reiner were also present, told CBS News on Monday that a brief but loud argument between the two took place.
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BREAKING: The LA Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled both Rob and Michele Reiner’s cause and manner of death as homicide by multiple sharp-force injuries. pic.twitter.com/LU5QDs0SlP
— Michael Ruiz (@mikerreports) December 17, 2025
The New York Times reported the latest details in the murder case:
Nick Reiner appeared briefly in court on Wednesday morning but did not enter a plea, a day after he was charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, the celebrated Hollywood fixtures Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner.
New details also emerged about the timeline of their deaths.
The county medical examiner’s office confirmed on Wednesday that the couple had died on Sunday of “multiple sharp force injuries.” They were found in the master bedroom area of their home on Sunday afternoon, according to Dominic Choi, the assistant chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Chief Choi told city police commissioners on Tuesday that the investigation turned within hours to the couple’s younger son, Nick Reiner, 32, who was arrested without incident on Sunday night near a gas station in South Los Angeles, about 15 miles away from the family’s home.
Nick Reiner was charged on Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder. Nathan J. Hochman, the Los Angeles County district attorney, is also pursuing a murder conviction with “special circumstances,” a designation that could make Mr. Reiner eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without parole.
Mr. Reiner appeared in Los Angeles Superior Court for the first time on Wednesday morning wearing a suicide-prevention smock, and had been expected to enter a plea. But his lawyer, Alan Jackson, told the court that it was “too early” for a plea and that he and the prosecution had agreed to delay the arraignment until Jan. 7.
The person who found Rob Reiner’s body was his daughter Romy Reiner, according to a person close to the family, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she and her other brother, Jake Reiner, were not yet ready to speak publicly. She entered the home after receiving a call from a massage therapist who had arrived at the Reiners’ Los Angeles home for a scheduled appointment.
On Wednesday, the siblings issued their first statement since their parents’ deaths. In it, they asked for respect and privacy.
“Words cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day,” the statement said. “The horrific and devastating loss of our parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, is something that no one should ever experience. They weren’t just our parents; they were our best friends.”