Rob Reiner and Michelle Reiner were found murdered in their Santa Monica motel room on Sunday afternoon. Their son, Nick Reiner, has been charged with their murder and is being questioned by the Los Angeles Police Department, but no bail has been granted.
00:00:54.420We did a video together yesterday because I feel like I needed some help to talk about this gruesome news that we all learned about yesterday.
00:01:03.900And of course, I'm talking about the murder of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Reiner.
00:01:09.260And what we know now, which everything is pointing to the fact that it was the son who did this.
00:01:16.900And now we know some more details, Magnus, that you learned today, which is...
00:01:22.400Yes, first of all, he's been arrested.
00:01:24.080And he was picked up at close to USC, the University of California, on Sunday night at 9.15, according to the LA Times.
00:01:34.480And you said that he was supposed to meet the judge today, right?
00:02:15.180But now we know more of the timing of the events or what really happened.
00:02:20.580We know that the family or Rob, Michelle and their son, Nick, went to Conan O'Brien's party on Saturday night.
00:02:30.220It was a holiday party with a lot of other celebrities.
00:02:33.280And we know some more of the stuff that went down at the party, Magnus.
00:02:37.220Yeah, apparently it was a shit show because he got into a fight with his father and apparently they yelled at each other in front of the other guests.
00:02:45.720And we also hear he talked, he went up to the comedian Bill Hader and interrupted him mid-conversation and was told off.
00:02:56.240And after that, apparently he got perplexed and he just stood there and stared for quite a bit of time and then he left in a huff.
00:03:03.580And also some people said that they observed him walking around, like asking people if they were famous.
00:03:13.840I'm sure he's accustomed to being around famous people since his father is who he is.
00:03:20.340But anyways, that they had an argument there.
00:03:24.060And it was said that he left, no, that the parents left the party before he did.
00:03:29.400And then the parents, what we think happened is that the parents went home and they went to bed.
00:03:36.040But now new reports are saying that when the first responders arrived to their home, both parents were in their beds.
00:03:44.860So that makes everyone believe, of course, that this happened while they were in bed and maybe while they were asleep.
00:03:51.880And according to another source, some really disturbing details came out today, Magnus.
00:03:57.060Yeah, it's Showbiz 411 that has a source that says that Michelle was alive when she was found and that she told the person that found her that it was Nick who had tried to kill them.
00:04:14.420But if it is, that says to me, if you're looking at all the timing of the events here, that she must have been alive for a long time because they were found at 3 p.m.
00:04:36.360So either he went there before he checked into that motel or he did that after and he went back after he had checked in and did this to his parents and then allegedly and then went back to the hotel again because now we know that they found in this hotel room.
00:04:55.280Yeah, when the room was cleaned in the morning, apparently there was blood in the shower and there was also blood in the bed.
00:05:03.240Of course, we don't know where the blood comes from, but that would indicate that, you know, he might have had blood on him that could have belonged to his own parents.
00:05:13.800And he wasn't arrested in that motel room, so he left the motel room.
00:05:19.480He had looked strung out when he checked in, according to people that worked at that motel.
00:05:25.880But the interesting thing is here, of course, it explains a few things because the cops from the start, apparently, they were looking at him, right?
00:05:33.740I mean, they took him in early to question him.
00:05:36.360And normally it would take a long time if they, you know, if they don't have an obvious suspect.
00:05:40.580But what I'm still struggling to figure out here is, you know, if he checked into the motel after he had done this at 4 a.m. in the morning, he must have had blood all over him while he checked into the hotel.
00:05:52.740And I think that information probably would have been out there.
00:05:55.400I think so, too, especially since the rest of the information is out there.
00:05:58.440Yeah, so then that indicates that he went from that party and did something, who knows how late that party went on.
00:06:05.040And then he checked into this motel room and then he went out again and to his parents' house and did what he did.
00:06:15.000And then he was caught later and then he probably went back to the motel again and then had a shower.
00:06:21.420And then he left and then he was picked up by the police at 9.
00:06:25.180He was arrested at Sunday night at USC, I mean, close to USC.
00:06:31.000And why he went there, we have no idea.
00:06:33.580But it's certainly not a Brentwood neighborhood, so to speak.
00:07:11.040And I just, I'm trying to figure out how this is even possible for a son to be so evil.
00:07:16.660And especially because we now know, we've seen so many interviews with Rob talking about his son and how much he loves him and how much he tried to help him and how supportive they always were of their son.
00:08:04.000And he continued to have these tantrums.
00:08:06.040And that was something he talked about himself, you know, when he wrecked the guest house where he was living, although he was high on drugs.
00:08:11.720But it was told, when Nick talked about it, it was sort of told in a flippant way, almost like it was a bit, he was, you know, it wasn't a big deal.
00:08:21.060And maybe that's what his siblings said, right?
00:08:23.440Yeah, I read that his siblings, they didn't really have a great relationship to him because they felt that their parents were babying Nick, that they would always give him the benefit of the doubt, that they always gave him much more attention.
00:08:39.520As we know, he was living in their guest house and he is 32 years old, which is not that crazy.
00:08:46.920But still, they felt that, you know, that their parents were giving him too much slack, basically.
00:10:46.240If you are an addict, you have to seek some professional help.
00:10:49.380And that's something that the father kept saying in this interview that I watched.
00:10:53.220And I showed a part of that yesterday where he said, you know, that we were listening to experts and they regretted listening to experts because they said we should have listened to him and his needs.
00:11:24.420It's the lawyer that represented Harvey Weinstein with mixed success, one could say, and also Kevin Spacey with more success, at least for Kevin Spacey.