{"id":92710,"date":"2026-05-07T22:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/how-rob-reiners-son-jake-will-connect-with-late-dad\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:44:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:44:57","slug":"how-rob-reiners-son-jake-will-connect-with-late-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/how-rob-reiners-son-jake-will-connect-with-late-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rob Reiner&#8217;s Son Jake Will &#8216;Connect&#8217; With Late Dad\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Rob Reiner<\/b> and <b>Michele Singer Reiner<\/b>\u2019s son <b>Jake Reiner <\/b>returned to his \u201cThe Inline\u201d podcast nearly six months after his parents\u2019 tragic deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI want to thank everyone that I\u2019ve heard from, near and far, since everything\u2019s happened,\u201d Jake, 34, began the Wednesday, May 6, episode of his Dodgers fan <span class=\"s1\">podcast<\/span>. \u201cI\u2019ve tried to get back to every one of you, and I will continue to try to respond to people, but just know I\u2019ve seen all the love, all the support out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He continued, \u201cIt has been so nice to see how wonderful, not only my friends and family, but the Dodgers Twitter community or X community. I really feel the love. I couldn\u2019t appreciate that more. I felt it was time to come back to the podcast. I was thinking about it for a really long time, been talking to<b> Kevin <\/b>[<b>Klein<\/b>, my cohost] about it for a while. I told him I wanted to write this essay or op-ed piece first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Jake <span class=\"s1\">published a Substack essay<\/span> last month, detailing his grief after Rob and Michele were found dead inside their home in December 2025. They were 78 and 70, respectively. (Rob and Michele are also survived by daughter Romy and son Nick, the latter who was arrested in connection to their murders. Nick pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder with a special circumstance of multiple murders and is awaiting trial.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1936130014-rob-reiner-michele-kids-quotes-murders.jpg?crop=0px%2C29px%2C1200px%2C679px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Everything the Reiner Kids Have Said About Parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner's Murders\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">What Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner&#8217;s Kids Said About Their Murders<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tRob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner were found dead in their Brentwood, Los Angeles, home on December 14, 2025, after being stabbed to death. Their son Nick Reiner was subsequently arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty and is currently awaiting trial. A spokesperson for the family released a [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI just felt with everything going on \u2026 I wanted to put my words out there and let people in as to the kind of people they were at home for those who really knew and loved them,\u201d Jake said on Wednesday, noting that his podcast return was partially inspired by Rob. \u201cWhen it comes to the Dodgers, my first love, it\u2019s something I\u2019ve always connected with my dad first and foremost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">He added, \u201cIt\u2019s something I will continue to connect with him for the rest of my life. <\/span>I felt it was time to come back to the podcast. It\u2019s a good time to talk Dodgers baseball. I didn\u2019t want to jump on the podcast and start talking about the Dodgers\u2019 offensive woes or bullpen woes without addressing some things first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Jake further pointed to his Instagram page and his Substack essay for fans who wanted to hear more of his thoughts about Rob and Michele\u2019s deaths.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=200%2C113&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=300%2C169&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=600%2C338&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=800%2C450&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=900%2C506&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=1000%2C563&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=1200%2C675&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=1600%2C900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=1800%2C1012&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2251402958-Rob-Reiner-and-Family-Attended-Spinal-Tap-2-Premiere-3-Months-Before-Deaths.jpg?crop=102px%2C193px%2C1181px%2C668px&amp;resize=1920%2C1080&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"ob Reiner and Family Attended Spinal Tap 2 Premiere 3 Months Before Deaths\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Jake and Romy Reiner Break Silence After Parents&#8217; Deaths, Brother&#8217;s Arrest<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tRob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner\u2019s kids \u2014 son Jake and daughter Romy \u2014 broke their silence on the couple\u2019s tragic deaths and brother Nick Reiner\u2019s arrest in connection with their murder. \u201cWords cannot even begin to describe the unimaginable pain we are experiencing every moment of the day. The horrific and devastating [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cNothing can prepare you for what it feels like to lose both parents instantly at the same time. It\u2019s too devastating to comprehend,\u201d Jake wrote in his April essay, detailing the moments he learned about his mom and dad\u2019s deaths. \u201cI still wake up every morning having to convince myself that, \u2018No, it\u2019s not a dream. This truly is my living nightmare.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p3\">The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner revealed late last year that Rob and Michele died from multiple sharp force injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Jake further noted in his essay, \u201cI can\u2019t even begin to put myself in my parents\u2019 shoes, but one thing I keep coming back to is how frightened they must have been. They were the last people in the world to deserve what happened to them. They deserved to be loved, they deserved to be respected, and above all they deserved to be appreciated for how much they gave to all three of us and to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">According to Jake, he took to Substack to share his \u201cstory\u201d and noted that Romy would \u201ctell hers in her own way and in her time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner\u2019s son Jake Reiner returned to his \u201cThe Inline\u201d podcast nearly six months after his parents\u2019 tragic deaths. \u201cI want to thank everyone that I\u2019ve heard from, near and far, since everything\u2019s happened,\u201d Jake, 34, began the Wednesday, May 6, episode of his Dodgers fan podcast. \u201cI\u2019ve tried to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Jake-Reiner-With-Family-GettyImages-1936130542.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}