The Reiner Murders | The Trial Of Nick Reiner

What Nick Reiner Was Owed Before His Parents Were Found Dead

Rob and Michele Reiner created a trust for their son when he was born. They funded it. They structured it so half would come to Nick on his thirtieth birthday. The trust reportedly calls the distribution “mandatory and unconditional.” Nick turned thirty on September 14, 2023. The money never came. Twenty-seven months later, his parents were dead. Nick’s lawyers filed a 136-page probate petition demanding the full balance. The petition wasn’t designed to lay out a motive. But the timeline it creates — a date, a dollar amount, and two people who controlled the money and ended up dead — reads like one. The new trustee, Jodi Montgomery, has reportedly requested to meet Nick in jail. Alan Jackson’s defense firm says they’ll come back the moment the money clears. For the community following this case, the hardest question isn’t whether Nick is entitled to the money. It’s why Rob and Michele never paid it. They wrote the trust. They chose the word “mandatory.” They chose the word “unconditional.” And for twenty-seven months after the first distribution came due, they held it. Nick has pleaded not guilty to both counts of murder. A look back at the most compelling stories of the week. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] This 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. #NickReiner #RobReiner #ReinerCase #MicheleReiner #TrustFund #ReinerChannel #AlanJackson #JodiMontgomery #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

Did Nick Reiner Know About the $1.5 Million at His Birthday Dinner With Rob and Michele?

Nick Reiner birthday dinner trust fund — September 14th, 2024. A photograph of the entire Reiner family together at a Las Vegas steakhouse for Nick’s 31st birthday. Everyone smiling. One year and one day after a trust distribution reportedly worth more than $750,000 was due to Nick and never paid. Fifteen months before Rob and Michele were found dead. That photograph sits at the center of this episode because it raises a question nobody can answer from the outside: did Nick know what he was owed when he sat across from the parents who were reportedly withholding it? Was the resentment already building behind that smile, compounding month by month alongside a psychiatric condition and substance issues that were reportedly getting worse? Or did he only learn what the trust said later — and if so, when? Tony dissects the motive theory that Nick’s own probate filing accidentally created, traces the twenty-seven-month timeline between the missed distribution and the murders, and examines the legal paradox where the insanity defense — the same defense his former attorney was reportedly preparing — is the only path that could let Nick avoid prison and still keep the money his parents allegedly wouldn’t give him while they were alive. Nick Reiner has pleaded not guilty. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] DISCLAIMER: This 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. #NickReiner #RobReiner #ReinerCase #MicheleReiner #TrustFund #MurderMotive #BrentwoodMurders #BirthdayDinner #SlayerStatute #TrueCrime

Nick Reiner’s Parents Built Him a Trust as a Baby — He’s Cashing It From a Jail Cell

Rob and Michele Reiner created a trust for their son when he was a baby. They funded it. They structured it so half would come to Nick on his thirtieth birthday, with the rest due at thirty-five. The trust reportedly calls the age-thirty distribution “mandatory and unconditional.” Nick turned thirty on September 14th, 2023. The money never came. Twenty-seven months later, his parents were dead. And the question no court will ever be required to answer is the one that haunts this family: why didn’t Rob and Michele pay their son the money their own document said he was owed? A 136-page probate petition is the Reiner defense team’s answer to the financial collapse that drove Alan Jackson off the case. Jackson’s firm has filed a declaration stating they are “ready, willing, and able” to return the moment the trust releases more than $1.5 million. The petition argues the age-thirty money was never an inheritance — it was a contractual obligation that came due before anyone was killed. Nick has pleaded not guilty. The presumption of innocence, his lawyers argue, means the money is lawfully his until a jury says otherwise. Eric Faddis walks through what this means for the family. The slayer statute’s actual reach versus public assumption. The trustee who stepped down after reportedly questioning Nick’s judgment. Jodi Montgomery — Britney Spears’ former conservator — stepping into the role and reportedly seeking a meeting with Nick in jail. Whether Jake and Romy Reiner can intervene. And the scenario the family fears most: the money released, spent on defense attorneys, and then a conviction — with nothing left to recover. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] This 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. #NickReiner #RobReiner #ReinerCase #MicheleReiner #JakeReiner #RomyReiner #TrustFund #EricFaddis #AlanJackson #HiddenKillers

What Nick Reiner’s Lawyers Filed About Rob and Michele’s Trust

Rob and Michele Reiner set up a trust for their son Nick when he was born. They chose terms that were supposed to protect him for life — half the money at thirty, the rest at thirty-five, with language their own attorneys described as leaving no room for interpretation. Now Nick sits in a Los Angeles jail, charged with both their deaths, and his lawyers have filed a 136-page petition demanding every dollar in that trust to fund his defense. He has pleaded not guilty. For the community that loved Rob’s work and followed this family’s story, this is one of the hardest developments yet. The petition says Nick was owed his first distribution more than two years before the killings — and never received it. His team argues the money is lawfully his regardless of the charges, invoking the same principle most people believe in until they see it tested: you are innocent until proven otherwise. They want the funds to rehire attorney Alan Jackson, who left when the money collapsed and has stated he’s prepared to come back. Defense attorney and former felony prosecutor Eric Faddis walks through what this filing means for everyone connected to this case. He examines the trustee who resigned citing concerns about Nick’s judgment, the new trustee stepping in — Jodi Montgomery, known nationally for her role in Britney Spears’ conservatorship — and the legal tools available to Jake and Romy Reiner, who already withdrew their support for funding Nick’s defense. Faddis explains California’s slayer statute, the reported freeze on the larger Reiner family trusts, and the scenario that haunts the family: the money released, spent entirely on defense, and then a conviction. He answers the question no one wants to ask aloud — can any of it come back? Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] This 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. #NickReiner #RobReiner #ReinerCase #MicheleReiner #TrustFund #EricFaddis #JakeReiner #RomyReiner #TrueCrime #HiddenKillers

Nick Reiner's $1.5 Million Petition Dies If His Parents Had Added One Clause

Nick Reiner $1.5 million petition — one trust clause would have made this filing legally impossible. The Reiner trust reportedly didn't have it. Neither do most family trusts in America. According to the probate petition, Nick Reiner's individual trust required half the funds to be distributed when he turned thirty. No conditions. No discretion. No mechanism for the trustee to withhold based on behavior, criminal charges, or anything else. His lawyers call the payout mandatory and unconditional — and they may be right. That single word, "mandatory," is the foundation of the entire petition. Without it, the case collapses. This episode doesn't relitigate whether Nick should get the money or whether the slayer statute applies — those episodes are already published. This one answers the question that comes next: what should have been in the trust to make sure the question never came up? Three specific provisions — an indictment freeze that suspends distributions the moment a beneficiary faces criminal charges against the grantor, a discretionary structure that removes automatic vesting dates entirely, and a behavioral trigger that conditions payouts on sobriety and stability — each would have given the trustee the authority to say no without a court fight. Estate attorneys build these into trusts every day. They exist for families dealing with addiction, volatile relationships, and financial instability. They're not exotic. They're standard. The Reiner trust was written in 1993 for a baby. Thirty-two years later, nobody had added any of these provisions. That's not unusual — that's the norm. And that's why this episode matters beyond the Reiner case. If your family has a trust with mandatory distributions and no conditions, the same vulnerability exists in your documents right now. Nick Reiner is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [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 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] DISCLAIMER: This 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. HASHTAGS: #NickReiner #RobReiner #ReinerCase #MicheleReiner #TrustFund #SlayerStatute #AlanJackson #ProbateCourt #EstatePlanning #InheritanceKillers