When the news broke on Sunday night that the legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele had been found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home, the response from the couple’s Hollywood friends and film fans alike was one of outright horror. Reiner, the 78-year-old sitcom actor turned director of beloved movies such as The Princess Bride, This Is Spinal Tap and When Harry Met Sally, had brought so much happiness to so many cinemagoers that his and his wife’s lives should come to such a harrowing end seemed near-impossible to compute.
But in the hours and days that followed, the tragedy became yet more shocking. On Monday, Los Angeles police confirmed that they had arrested the couple’s son, Nick Reiner, on suspicion of murder; and on Tuesday, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman announced that the 32-year-old will be charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
