Romy Reiner went to check on her parents because they weren't answering the door. She found her father. She called 911. And then she learned the suspect was her own brother.

This look back at the Reiner case is about the three people the headlines keep skipping past. Jake, Romy, and Tracy woke up with parents and went to bed orphans — and inherited something almost no family ever has to hold: they are the ones who lost the most, the next of kin with a voice in the case, and the family of the man accused of taking everything from them. All at once. For the rest of their lives.

We revisit where things stood at the time of our reporting — Nick's not guilty plea, his documented diagnosis, the legal roads ahead — but this segment keeps its focus on the family. Days after their parents died, Jake and Romy said the loss was something no one should ever have to experience, that their parents weren't just parents but their best friends. Sources say the siblings have cut Nick off completely. They're not visiting. But he isn't gone — he's alive, awaiting trial, a name that will sit in headlines for years.

Sources also say they don't want him to face the ultimate punishment — honoring a value their father held, even now. How do you grieve someone who's still here? That's the question this family is living inside.

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