# Nick Reiner Was Owed $1.5 Million — His Parents Didn’t Pay. Now They’re Dead

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Podcast: [Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/hidden-killers-with-tony-brueski-true-crime-news-commentary-5840426)
Published: 2026-06-22T18:00:00+00:00
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Nick Reiner $1.5 million trust — the trust terms reportedly said mandatory. The parents reportedly said no. Twenty-seven months later, Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their own home and their son was arrested the same night. Nobody in law enforcement has publicly connected those two facts. This episode does. Nick’s own probate filing created the timeline prosecutors haven’t released: a distribution due in September 2023, parents who controlled the trust and chose not to pay, a man living in their guesthouse with a reported psychiatric diagnosis and substance issues, and a medication change weeks before the killings that sources say destroyed whatever stability he had left. The petition was meant to argue Nick deserves his money now. It may have argued something much bigger. Tony walks through the motive theory point by point — why the anger reportedly predated the money by years, why a broken brain doesn’t file lawsuits, why twenty-seven months of delay is evidence of fuse length rather than evidence against motive, and why the insanity defense his former attorney was reportedly building is the only strategy that fights the murder charge and potentially protects the trust fund at the same time. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Join 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/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod DISCLAIMER: This publication contains commentary and opi…

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