New photos obtained by the Daily Mail have revealed the hotel room Nick Reiner allegedly left covered in blood following his parents’ horrific murder.
Rob Reiner’s son checked into room 207 at The Pierside Santa Monica around 4am on Sunday.
It is a $400-a-night boutique hotel about 1,000ft away from the world-famous Santa Monica Pier, and a five minute walk to the LA Metro line that goes directly to the Exposition park area where Nick was eventually arrested by cops.
Nick Reiner was charged with two counts of murder in connection to the deaths of his Hollywood legend father Rob, and his mother Michele. He has not yet entered a plea.
When hotel staff came into Reiner’s room later on Sunday morning, the shower was said to be ‘full of blood’, with splatters across the bed.
The windows in the room were covered by bed sheets – and detectives arrived at the hotel on Monday to collect evidence.
Photos of the outside of the room taken on Wednesday showed that there was no crime scene tape blocking off the room where Nick stayed.
Police are now trying to trace his movements between Saturday night, when he attended a holiday party with his parents, and his arrest at 9.15pm Sunday night in downtown LA.
Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner were found dead by their daughter Romy on Sunday afternoon, with emergency services called to their home around 3.30pm.
They had likely been dead for hours when they were found, with their bodies already showing signs of rigor mortis, according to police sources.
Their throats had been cut and they may have been asleep in their bed when they were murdered, a source close to the investigation claimed to the Daily Mail.
The Hollywood director’s son had been living in the guesthouse of his parents’ $13.5million mansion in the LA suburb of Brentwood at the time of their deaths.
Reiner was increasingly worried about Nick, who had a history of drug addiction and mental breakdowns, and took him to a holiday party Saturday night to ‘keep an eye on him,’ sources have said.
Nick is said to have left A-list guests feeling unnerved at Conan O’Brien’s Christmas bash, getting into a tiff with comedian Bill Hader and prompting his parents to leave the event.
A source close to the investigation told the Daily Mail that Nick may have killed his parents after the party.
‘He could have done it not long after they all went home, meaning he went there and slit their throats in the middle of the night,’ the source said. ‘They were in bed when that happened.’
Surveillance footage taken at a gas station a ten minute walk from the Reiner residence shows Nick calmly walking up the street on Saturday night before disappearing .
In the early hours of Sunday morning, he checked into the Pierside, located just off Santa Monica beach around five miles from his parents’ home, or a ten-minute drive.
The Daily Mail has approached Pierside for comment.
Fears for the Reiners’ safety were only raised when a masseuse arrived at their $13.5 million mansion in the Brentwood district of LA at 2pm the next day, and no one answered the door, the Daily Mail previously revealed.
Romy, who lives across the street, then reportedly investigated and called emergency services when she discovered the horrific scene.
The LA Fire Department says first responders were called to the Reiner home around 3.30pm on Sunday and tried to render aid to the stabbed couple, to no avail.
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