Rob Reiner’s son Jake has shared horrific new details of the day he found out his parents were murdered and the ‘impossible’ moment his brother Nick was charged with their slayings.
Jake Reiner, 34, shared a gut-wrenching Substack article on Friday describing the moment he was told by his sister Romy, 28, that his parents Rob and Michele had been found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home in December 2025.
He said the news was ‘too devastating to comprehend’, and recalled racing to his childhood home in a 45-minute taxi ride ‘in a trance.’
‘The only thing I could focus on was that I needed to get to my childhood home. I needed to get to my sister. I needed to figure out what the hell just happened,’ he wrote.
‘I was robbed of so many things that day. My parents won’t be at my wedding, they won’t get to hold their future grandchild, and they won’t get to see me have the successful career I’m still seeking. It simultaneously breaks my heart and enrages me.’
Jake said while reeling from the news of his parents deaths, he was horrified to then learn that his brother Nick was the alleged murderer.
‘We lost more than half of our family that night in the most violent way imaginable,’ he wrote.
‘Sure, any loss of a parent is devastating, but nothing compares to losing both of them at the same time and, on top of that, having your brother be at the center of it. It’s almost too impossible to process.’
Prosecutors allege that Nick, 32, attacked his parents in their $13.5 million home in Brentwood, Los Angeles on December 14, stabbing them to death with a knife before fleeing the scene. He has pleaded not guilty.
Rob Reiner’s son Jake has shared horrific new details of the day he found out his parents were murdered and the ‘impossible’ moment his brother Nick was charged with their slayings
Jake wrote of the anguish he has endured since the murders of his Hollywood legend father Rob Reiner and mom Michele in December 2025
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Nick is facing two charges of first-degree murder, and is next due in court on April 29 for a discovery hearing on the evidence prosecutors will bring against him in his murder trial. He is being held in custody without bail.
In his Substack article shared Friday, Jake Reiner said he is still stunned almost six months on from the murders that a member of his own family allegedly killed his parents.
‘Every day since then has been horrendous,’ he wrote.
‘Every meeting we take, every person we talk to, every tear we shed, every movement we make is connected to our parents being murdered.’
Jake wrote of the anguish he and his sister Romy have endured since their parents’ murders, while not mentioning Nick by name and only referring to him as ‘my brother.’
He said he and his sister have continued suffering even as their parents’ high-profile deaths left the spotlight, writing that ‘when you are not living through a tragedy the specific way Romy and I are, it’s hard to wrap your head around just how horrific this has been.’
‘Because they weren’t your parents, it might be easier to move forward or even forget for a moment about what happened that day,’ he wrote.
‘But for us, it’s every single day.’
Nick Reiner (center) has been charged with murdering his parents in December 2025. He is seen in 2016 with Jake (right) and their sister Romy (left)
Prosecutors allege that Nick, 32, attacked his parents in their home in Brentwood, Los Angeles on December 14, stabbing them to death with a knife before fleeing the scene. He has pleaded not guilty
Jake Reiner said he is heartbroken by his parents Rob and Michele’s murders, writing that ‘every day since then has been horrendous’
Jake paid touching tributes to his parents throughout his piece, saying that they were ‘the center of my life.’
‘They are my guiding lights, the foundation of who I am as a human being, and the most giving people I have ever known,’ he wrote.
‘A lot of people don’t have the luxury of having the best parents, the best mom, or the best dad, but I did. The love they have for me, my brother, and my sister is truly unconditional.
‘And the love they have for each other in their marriage is something I always looked up to as the standard of what a successful relationship looks like.’
While his famous father was a Hollywood legend, Jake described his mother Michele as ‘the engine, the backbone, and the heart of our entire family.’
‘She had a passion for life most people wish they could attain.’
Jake paid touching tributes to his parents throughout his piece, saying that they were ‘the center of my life’ and recalled a happy childhood with them
Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their $13.5 million mansion in Los Angeles (pictured) in December 2025
He wrote of watching musicals with his mother and going to baseball games with his father, and acknowledged his privileged upbringing as the son of celebrities.
‘It’s not lost on me that I was able to have these incredible experiences, that most people don’t get to have, because of who my parents were,’ he wrote.
‘But I would trade every Dodger game, every Broadway show, every vacation, if I could just spend just one more hour talking to them and to say goodbye.’
