High-Tech Tools Used to Track Down Nick Reiner After His Parents’ Slayings
It didn’t take long for police to focus on Nick Reiner after his parents were found fatally stabbed in the master bedroom of their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon.
The challenge became finding him. Reiner lived in Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s guesthouse but was not there when police arrived around 3:30 p.m. Prosecutors now allege he killed his parents sometime early Sunday.
Investigation and Tracking
Detectives got a break in the case when they determined Reiner had checked into the Pierside Santa Monica hotel sometime after 4 a.m. Sunday. But when they arrived in the afternoon, according to sources familiar with the investigation, he was gone.
So authorities turned to digital geolocation to determine his whereabouts, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment to the media.
Police began looking at Reiner’s movements across Los Angeles around 7 p.m. Sunday using location data from his cellphone, along with other electronic devices, app footprints and a network of cameras.
Arrest and Charges
The sources said Reiner moved quickly across the city during that period, eventually ending up in the Exposition Park area near USC, and was arrested around 9:15 p.m. by L.A. police gang and narcotics detectives as part of a fugitive task force. Officers filmed the arrest, which was also captured on gas station cameras.
Prosecutors filed two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances against Reiner on Tuesday. Reiner also faces a special allegation that he used a deadly weapon, a knife, in the crime, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said during a news conference.
Reiner appeared briefly in court Wednesday but did not enter a plea. His attorney, Alan Jackson, told reporters outside the courthouse after the hearing that “there are very, very complex, serious issues associated with this case” that need to be analyzed.
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