Rob Reiner's Son Nick: FBI Expert Robin Dreeke on How the Family Stopped Seeing the Danger
Rob Reiner's Son Nick: FBI Expert Robin Dreeke on How the Family Stopped Seeing the Danger  
Podcast: Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
Published On: Sat Jan 31 2026
Description: How does a family go from calling the police in 2019 to sleeping in the same house with someone in apparent psychiatric crisis on December 13th, 2025? Rob Reiner wasn't stupid. He was a successful director, a public intellectual, a man with resources and connections. Michele wasn't naive. These were accomplished people who had access to the best treatment money could buy. Yet their son Nick is now charged with stabbing them to death in their Brentwood home. Former FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke—who spent 21 years with the Bureau including serving as Chief of the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program—joins us to analyze what happened inside that family over twenty years. But we also examine what may have happened that night. Harvey Levin at TMZ says sources describe the crime scene as "incredibly brutal"—disturbing even to seasoned medical examiner staff. He said publicly it had "all the markings of a meth murder." Nick was arrested near Exposition Park, an area known for drug activity. His documented history includes violent outbursts while "spun out on uppers," cocaine binges, heroin addiction, and destroying his parents' guest house while high on stimulants. The family says his medication was working—then doctors changed his prescription a month before the killings. Dreeke explains how trust gets exploited through reciprocity, vulnerability, and manufactured guilt. The Reiners had tried tough love. It hadn't worked. They blamed themselves. Nick co-wrote "Being Charlie" with his father—a movie about their relationship. That's extraordinary narrative control over the family story. What does that level of influence tell you about the power dynamics? And the question Dreeke can't stop thinking about: Could anyone have broken through to the Reiners?#NickReiner #RobReiner #MicheleReiner #RobinDreeke #FBI #ThreatBlindness #MentalHealth #DualDiagnosis #HollywoodTragedy #HiddenKillersJoin Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@hiddenkillerspodInstagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/tonybpodListen Ad-Free On Apple Podcasts Here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-today-premium-plus-ad-free-advance-episode/id1705422872This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.