Romy Reiner thought she was just checking on her parents. Instead, she walked into hell. A locked gate, a worried massage therapist, a quiet Brentwood house that suddenly felt wrong. Inside, she found her father, Rob Reiner, slain. She ran, not knowing her mother lay dead just rooms away. Hours later, her brother was in handcu… Continues…
She arrived because a stranger couldn’t get through the gate, expecting inconvenience, not catastrophe. The house where she’d grown up, where premieres were toasted and birthdays celebrated, had become a crime scene. The image of her father’s body is something she will carry alone in that first moment, before sirens, before statements, before the world knew. Only later, through a paramedic’s words, did the second blow land: her mother, Michele, was gone too.
