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Nick Reiner Indicted, Pleads Not Guilty to Parents’ Murders

(The Center Square)—Nick Reiner has been indicted in the murders of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner and Rob’s wife Michele Singer Reiner.

The grand jury’s indictment, which was reached in late July, was unsealed Wednesday, and Nick Reiner, 32, pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder with the special circumstances allegations of multiple murders and murder by means of lying in wait.

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The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has alleged Nick Reiner stabbed Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, to death early in the morning of Dec. 14 at the couple’s home in the affluent Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Nick Reiner lived with them.

The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office reported that the couple died from multiple sharp force injuries and that the manner of death was homicide.

Rob Reiner is known for everything from acting in the hit CBS sitcom “All in the Family” to directing popular movies such as “The Princess Bride,” “A Few Good Men” and “When Harry Met Sally.” His father, the late Carl Reiner, was a writer, producer and actor who created the 1960s sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” in which Carl Reiner had a recurring role as fictional TV variety show host Alan Brady.