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Nick Reiner Schizophrenia Treatment, New Meds Before Parents Murder "Made Him Erratic" | CRIME ALERT RECAP SATURDAY 12.20.2025
20 Dec 2025
Breaking crime news as it happens throughout the day! Follow "Crime Alert Hourly Update" now on your favorite podcast app: https://link.chtbl.com/Crime_Alert Here's some of our top stories this week: Sources claim Nick Reiner was diagnosed with Schizophrenia before parents were murdered and the recent medication change "made him erratic and dangerous" A scathing lawsuit is calling out a hospital - accusing them of gross negligence after a granny's skull chunk it tossed out - in a bone blunder. They offered a $25 gas card to make up for the error. The individual suspected of last week's mass shooting at Brown University has been discovered deceased in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, following a six-day multi-state manhunt. The arrest of sixty-eight-year-old Joe Campbell, a once-celebrated children’s pastor now accused of first-degree rape and lewd acts involving a child under sixteen, marks what survivors say is a long-overdue reckoning more than forty years in the making. Stay informed, stay safe, and stay ahead with "Crime Alert Hourly Update.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I'm Nicole Parton with breaking details in the shocking Brentwood double homicide involving Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle Singer Reiner. According to TMZ, their son, Nick Reiner, who's now charged with their murders, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in the weeks leading up to the killings.
His behavior reportedly became erratic and dangerous after a change in medication. Two sources with direct knowledge say Nick was under psychiatric care and had recently been treated at a Los Angeles high-end rehab facility specializing in mental illness and substance abuse. That facility cost about $70,000 a month, and it's known for catering to wealthy families.
TMZ reports that about a month before the murders, doctors adjusted Nick's medication in an effort to stabilize him, but instead his condition worsened.
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Chapter 2: What led to Nick Reiner's schizophrenia diagnosis and his parents' murder?
One source said, quote, Nick was out of his head. Substance abuse reportedly compounded his schizophrenia. Legal experts believe this case is headed toward a not guilty by reason of insanity plea. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has released the Reiner's bodies to their family. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
The autopsy confirmed both victims died from multiple sharp force injuries. Nick Reiner remains in custody without bail and is scheduled for arraignment in January.
Detroit Hospital did not just drop the ball on a grandmother's recovery. They allegedly tossed a chunk of her skull in the trash and tried to pay off the family with a measly $25 gas card. Edna Burton, a beloved Nana and 20-year veteran employee of Ascension St.
Chapter 3: How did changes in Nick Reiner's medication affect his behavior?
John Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is now at the center of a scathing negligence lawsuit after a routine medical procedure devolved into a grotesque administrative blunder. Daughter Erica Burton spoke to News 4 Detroit. It ain't even about the money. Y'all don't even know what y'all took from us. The nightmare began when Burton was rushed into emergency surgery following a devastating stroke.
To save her life, surgeons performed a hemicraniectomy, removing a significant section of her skull, a bone flap, to allow her brain to swell safely. Standard protocol dictated the bone be preserved and reattached once the pressure subsided. However, when doctors prepped for the follow-up procedure months later, they made a stomach-churning discovery. The bone was gone.
According to the lawsuit filed on December 16th in Wayne County Circuit Court by the Oliver Bell Group, staff allegedly confused Burton with another patient named Edna Brown and misplaced or discarded the vital anatomy. Forced to improvise, medics installed a synthetic plastic plate instead of her God-given bone. The result has been catastrophic.
Burton's family says the prosthetic has left her in agony. largely bed-bound with painful sores, unable to eat, and stripped of her voice. Adding insult to the literal injury, hospital honchos reportedly offered the family a $25 gas card as an apology, a gesture her daughter slammed as beyond insulting, to say the least. While Henry Ford Health, which took over operations in 2024,
is trying to distance itself from the previous administration's botch. The Burton family is demanding justice for the loss of their matriarch's quality of life. The suit seeks unspecified damages for medical malpractice and emotional distress. Ascension says they cannot comment on pending litigation.
The individual suspected of last week's mass shooting at Brown University has been discovered dead in a storage facility in Salem, New Hampshire, following a six-day multi-state manhunt, according to law enforcement officials.
The suspect has been identified as 48-year-old Claudio Nevis Valente, a Portuguese national who attended the university in Providence, Rhode Island, approximately 25 years ago. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez stated that video surveillance and tips from the public guided investigators to a car rental facility where they matched Valente's name to their person of interest.
Authorities also suspect that the man was involved in a murder of a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT just two days after the December 13 shooting at Brown. No motive has been disclosed for either incident, Brown University President Christina Paxson confirmed that Valente was enrolled at the university from fall 2000 until spring 2001, pursuing a Ph.D.
in physics, but he did not have any current affiliation with the institution. Officials suspect the man fatally shot MIT professor Nuno Gomez, 47, in his Brookline home yesterday. Located roughly 50 miles from Providence, both the victim and the suspect were reported to have studied at the same university in Portugal in the late 1990s.
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Chapter 4: What negligence claims are being made against the Detroit hospital?
Don't show me your building and thank God for buildings. Don't show me all your equipment and your drama and your pretty props. Show me your men. Don't tell me about your bank account. Tell me about your disciple account. Show me your churches.
The allegations against Campbell are not new. According to church records and interviews reviewed by NBC News, complaints reached Assemblies of God leaders as early as 1983. One accuser by the name of Phaedra Creed reported abuse to police in Missouri in the late 1980s after living with Campbell and his family as a teenager. A medical examination confirmed she had been sexually assaulted.
Campbell was arrested at the time, but the case never went to trial after Creed withdrew her case under pressure. The Assemblies of God expelled Campbell from the denomination in 1989. Despite that, he continued working with children. He later founded a non-denominational church and a youth camp in the Missouri Ozarks.
The camp became a gathering place for people accused or convicted of sex crimes. Campbell also joined the PTL television network in 2016, the one made famous by Jim and Tammy Faye. His sermons were broadcast nationwide until earlier this year. NBC News says its Pastors and Pray series prompted Oklahoma investigators to reopen the case.
Attorney General Gentner Drummond called the allegations horrific and said his office would pursue accountability for survivors who said they were ignored for decades. Drummond said in a statement, quote, This arrest is about justice delayed, not justice denied. The Assemblies of God said it is grateful to those who came forward and hoped the legal process brings healing.
Campbell has not responded publicly to the charges. More crime and justice news after this. This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human.
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