Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele had been cremated after their brutal homicide, and their stays got to their oldest son, Jake, in line with the couple’s demise certificates.
The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Workplace launched the demise certificates of Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele Tuesday. The doc, obtained by The Submit, reveals what the general public already knew — every died from “a number of sharp level accidents” precipitated “with knife, from one other.”
The demise certificates additionally present that Rob and Michele had been cremated at Mount Sinai Mortuary, and their last place of disposition is on the residence of their son, Jake Reiner.
Rob’s occupation is listed as actor/director/producer and Michele’s is listed as a producer.
Rob’s demise certificates has a time of demise of three:45pm, and Michele’s is 3:46pm — Rob’s marital standing is “married” whereas Michele’s says “widowed.” First responders had been referred to as to the household’s residence at 3:30pm on Dec. 14, which means the time of demise is probably going once they had been formally pronounced lifeless on the scene.
As The Submit reported, final week, the Examiner’s Workplace revealed the director of “The Princess Bride” and his spouse died from “a number of sharp drive accidents.”
The way of demise for each Rob and Michele was listed as murder.
The information was revealed simply hours after their son Nick Reiner made his first look in court docket since his mother and father’ deaths.
Nick’s lawyer, Alan Jackson, instructed reporters outdoors Los Angeles Municipal Courtroom on Wednesday that an arraignment has been set for Jan. 7, 2026.
The Submit beforehand reported that Rob, 78, and Michele, 70, had been discovered stabbed to demise of their Brentwood residence in Los Angeles on Sunday, December 14.
Later that night, Nick was arrested on costs of homicide following the tragic deaths of his mother and father.
Nick, 32, was formally charged with two counts of first-degree homicide with a particular circumstance following a press listening to Tuesday.
“These costs might be two counts of first-degree homicide with a particular circumstance of a number of murders,” Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman instructed reporters.
“He additionally faces a particular allegation that he personally used a harmful and lethal weapon, that being a knife.”
Hochman added, “These costs carry a most sentence of life in jail with out the opportunity of parole or the demise penalty. No resolution, at this level, has been made with respect to the demise penalty.”
He defined through the presser that the Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace will take the “ideas and needs of the household into consideration” concerning the demise penalty if Nick is convicted.
Sources instructed The Submit that the couple’s our bodies had been found of their Los Angeles mansion by their daughter, Romy Reiner.
Stab wounds to their throats, in addition to a number of wounds all through Rob and Michele’s our bodies, had been found.
The couple’s different shared kids, Romy and Jake, launched an announcement on the household tragedy days later.
“Phrases can not even start to explain the unimaginable ache we’re experiencing each second of the day. The horrific and devastating lack of our mother and father, Rob and Michele Reiner, is one thing that nobody ought to ever expertise,” the siblings stated.
“They weren’t simply our mother and father; they had been our greatest pals. We’re grateful for the outpouring of condolences, kindness, and assist we now have obtained not solely from household and pals however individuals from all walks of life.”
They concluded the assertion, “We now ask for respect and privateness, for hypothesis to be tempered with compassion and humanity, and for our mother and father to be remembered for the unimaginable lives they lived and the love they gave.”
Nick was notably not talked about within the assertion.
Rob and Michele married in 1989 after assembly on the set of “When Harry Met Sally.” Rob additionally shared daughter Tracy from his earlier marriage to Penny Marshall.
