Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Found by Their Daughter

Calls came in at 3:30 p.m. The bod­ies were already cold. In a qui­et Los Ange­les home, a leg­endary direc­tor and his wife lay dead — and the fin­ger, sources say, points to their own son. Addic­tion. Home­less­ness. A fam­i­ly that tried to turn pain into art. Some­where, some­thing snapped, and now noth­ing will ever be the sa… Con­tin­ues…

The deaths of Rob Rein­er and his wife Michele, alleged­ly at the hands of their son Nick, shat­ter the illu­sion that even the most suc­cess­ful fam­i­lies are safe from pri­vate tor­ment. Neigh­bors o

nly saw a cel­e­brat­ed film­mak­er, a devot­ed hus­band, a proud father. Inside the home, decades of love were tan­gled with Nick’s long bat­tle against addic­tion, a strug­gle he once turned into the semi‑autobiographical film Being Char­liOn that Decem­ber after­noon, first respon­ders walked into a scene they will not for­get: two par­ents gone, a fam­i­ly sto­ry vio­lent­ly sev­ered. Their daugh­ter Romy, who dis­cov­ered them, now car­ries a grief almost impos­si­ble to name — mourn­ing not only her par­ents, but the broth­er now accused of destroy­ing them. It is a tragedy with no real vil­lains and no true res­o­lu­tion, only the echo of what might have been if help, some­how, had been enough. READ MORE BELOW