More details about Nick Reiner’s troubled past have been uncovered. The son of Rob and Michele Reiner had been under close watch for his mental health issues years before his parents’ tragic death. He eventually returned to live with his mom and dad after a year under someone else’s care.
This startling revelation comes as the co-writer of Being Charlie is on trial for first-degree murder following Rob and Michele’s deaths last month. He’s due to be arraigned on February 23.
Nick Reiner was in a mental health conservatorship before Rob and Michele Reiner’s murders
The latest revelation about Nick makes it even more likely his lawyers will raise an insanity defence. The New York Times reports that he had been under a mental health conservatorship in 2020. For a year, Steven Baer served as Nick’s conservator, something the Los Angeles Superior Court clerk confirmed.
While Steven didn’t share any details about his time with Nick, he did say that mental health “is an epidemic that is widely misunderstood. “He called the deaths of Rob and Michele a horrible tragedy. Nick was placed under an L.P.S. conservatorship which is set up for individuals who are gravely disabled because of a serious mental illness. After a year, a conservator can seek renewal, but that didn’t happen in Nick’s case.
Attorney Lee Blumen specializes in the kind of conservatorship Nick was in. He says one’s condition has to be severe to be placed under conservatorship in California.
Prior to December’s tragedy, Nick had been on medication, which reportedly left him a little dazed while in custody not long after the alleged murders. At the time of his parents’ death, he was under treatment for schizophrenia. His medication had reportedly changed in the weeks leading up to Rob and Michele’s deaths.
A source familiar with Nick’s health said he’d been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia on different occasions.
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