LOS ANGELES — A grand jury indictment unsealed today charges Nick Reiner with murdering his parents, Hollywood actor-director Rob Reiner and photographer-producer Michele Singer Reiner, at their Brentwood home last December.
Reiner, 32, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder. The indictment includes special-circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder by lying in wait, as well as an allegation that he personally used a knife as a deadly weapon.
Prosecutors allege that on Dec. 14, 2025, Reiner fatally stabbed Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, at their home in the 200 block of South Chadbourne Avenue. He allegedly fled the scene and was arrested later that evening in Exposition Park.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman described the alleged killings as a profound betrayal of two people who loved and trusted the defendant. He said the grand jury indictment moves the case closer to trial and the pursuit of justice.
The indictment was returned July 20. Reiner is being held without bail and is scheduled to appear for a pretrial hearing Sept. 15 in Department 108 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center.
If convicted as charged, he could face the death penalty or life in state prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors have not yet decided whether to seek the death penalty.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Major Crimes Division is prosecuting the case, which remains under investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery-Homicide Division.