Jake Reiner, the eldest son of Rob and Michele Reiner, is speaking out for the first time since his parents were murdered last year. Rob and Michele were found dead in their Los Angeles home on Dec. 14, 2025. Their youngest son, Nick, is currently being held in jail, facing two counts of murder. In a wide-ranging interview that aired earlier this week, Jake opened up to ABC News about what life has been like in the months without his parents. “It’s been eight months. It feels like eight years, at the same,” he told the news outlet. ”It also feels like eight minutes, because every moment that I wake up, I’m reminded of my reality.” Jake shared that on the day of his parents’ death, he was at a train station for a friend’s celebration of life when his sister Romy called him. “Romy called me, and I screened it. You know, I’ll call her back. And then she called immediately again, and I knew, at that point, that something was wrong,” he said. “Romy told me our dad was dead, and then she said, ‘I can’t find Mom.’ And I immediately went into shock. “I need to get out of this train station, and I need to get to my parents’ house.” Jake wouldn’t comment on whether he expected the suspect to be his brother, nor if he felt that Nick could do such a thing. However, he told ABC News that he hasn’t spoken to Nick. “I’ll never understand,” he said. “I don’t care how it’s explained to me. I don’t care what facts come out. I will never understand why this happened.” Jake admits that he struggles with anger. “It manifested into rage into how unfair this was, how I didn’t get a say in what happened,” he said. “I didn’t get to stop it from happening. I had no choice in the matter, and I just have to accept the reality of it. And to me, that is just one of the most infuriating parts of all of this.” He said he mourns the loss of half his family, with his parents gone and Nick in jail. In the months since his parents’ death, Jake has focused on giving back to the Children’s Institute, a Los Angeles-based organization that focuses on programs for early childhood education, which his parents helped support. He and Romy also threw out the first pitch at a Dodger’s game earlier this month, which was a special gesture for him, since his father was a season’s ticket holder. “It was an emotional thing that we did,” he said. “It’s something that I don’t know if I really could take in, in the moment, ‘cause everything happened kind of fast, but I was really happy that we got to do that.”
