Nick Reiner Update: Why A 'Security Hold' Is Hiding Rob and Michelle's Final Autopsy Results

In Los Angeles on Monday, Nick Reiner pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, filmmaker Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, while their final autopsy findings remain unavailable to the public.​

The oddity is not that a high-profile case is grim. It is that, months after the couple were found dead in their Brentwood home, the medical examiner's full reports are still not publicly accessible because a court order has placed what police call a 'security hold' on the files. The result is a case with a defendant in front of a judge, a public allegation of stabbing, and a crucial set of medical facts effectively frozen in place.​

Nick Reiner is 32. His parents were discovered in December with what officials described as 'multiple sharp force injuries'. Reiner has been held without bail since December.​

Nick Reiner Update And The 'Security Hold'

The full medical examiner reports are being kept under a literal court order. Usually these records are public, but the Los Angeles Police Department has successfully lobbied for a 'security hold' on the files.​

The medical examiner's office has also put its hands up, at least publicly. In a statement quoted by The Tab, the Los Angeles Medical Examiner confirmed that while preliminary information was briefly available, it has now been removed. 'Due to the court order, the information is no longer available... No other case information or records, including the Medical Examiner report, can be released or posted on the website until further notice.'​

It is hard not to hear the frustration baked into the wording. The office is essentially saying it did have details out there, it has been told to take them down, and it is not allowed to say more.

The scene in court offered its own unnerving snapshot. Reiner stood behind a glass partition with a shaved head and that his appearance was brief. During the hearing he spoke only once, uttering a single 'yes' to confirm he waived his right to a speedy trial.​

That waiver matters because it signals the case is not rushing towards resolution. A speedy trial right is meant to stop defendants being left to rot in legal limbo, but waiving it can also buy time for both sides to prepare. Here, the wider limbo is even more literal, with sealed autopsy reports sitting outside public view.

Nick Reiner Update Before The April Hearing

Prosecutors allege Reiner fatally stabbed his 78-year-old father and 68-year-old mother in the early hours of the morning, then fled the scene. Those allegations have now been formally met with a not guilty plea, and the legal process moves into its slower, procedural phase.​

Reiner is expected back in court on 29 April for a preliminary hearing. That hearing is described as the moment when prosecutors will have to lay out their evidence to a judge, who will decide whether there is enough to proceed to a full trial.​

For now, the investigation continues and the autopsies remain sealed. The public record is left with a blunt description of violence and a glaring absence where the final medical findings should be. When a court order can scrub official information from view, transparency becomes less a principle and more a permission slip.