ROB REINER AND WIFE FOUND STABBED TO DEATH IN THEIR BRENTWOOD HOME

By Bob Walsh

 

Romy Reiner and Rob Reiner 

 

At about 3 p.m. on Sunday the LAPD were called to the home of Rob Reiner and his wife in Brentwood, Los Angeles.  They were apparently both stabbed to death.  They were called by someone inside the home.

The cops are thus far declining to identify the dead people or anything about the manner of death.  They are saying they have not arrested anybody and are not detaining anybody in the deaths.

Both Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Gavin Newsom have identified Reiner and his wife as the decedents.  

It seems unlikely in the extreme that this was a murder-suicide.  It also seems unlikely that somebody stabbed two dead bodies a bunch of times.  It therefore seems most likely the manner of death was homicide.  

The Chief of Detectives, whose name I forget and who was completely forgettable, said there will be another press conference Monday sometime.  The first one, given at the scene about 9 p.m. local time, was completely uninformative.  As is to be expected at that stage of the investigation unless they had a suspect in custody and a confession.  

I somehow doubt the lack of information is comforting to the neighbors, though multiple knife wounds to each person suggests a personal as opposed to a professional killing or a murder in the course of a robbery or burglary.

 

ADDENDUM:

 

 

Nick Reiner 

 

Various radio news reports are now saying that the Reiner's son Nick is "in custody" for the murders.  They are also saying that the Reiner's daughter Romy found the bodies.  Nick is 32 and is a well-known drug user.