Three weeks ago, Nick Reiner had the best criminal defense money could buy. Alan Jackson — the attorney who got Karen Read acquitted, who represented Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey — was building what looked like an insanity defense backed by a two-hundred-million-dollar estate. Today, Jackson told a Los Angeles Read more…
Sources say the Reiner family had been scared of Nick for years. That he had violent outbursts. That Michele told a friend, “I don’t know what else we can do.” That his behavior was aggressive enough to require private yoga sessions as a child because he was too disruptive for Read more…
Stephanie Hale, a teacher at Robb Elementary, testified today in the Adrian Gonzales trial. Gonzales is charged with 29 felony counts of child endangerment for his response to the 2022 Robb Elementary shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead. Gonzales was the first officer on scene. Prosecutors say Read more…
A video that nobody knew existed has thrown the Mickey Stines murder case into chaos. According to a defense motion filed December 29th, Special Judge Christopher Cohron was captured on video sitting next to Judge Kevin Mullins — the man Stines is accused of killing — at a mental health Read more…
Nick Reiner started using drugs at fifteen. By sixteen, he was in his first rehab. By twenty-two, he’d been through eighteen treatment programs. The focus was always addiction. Heroin. Meth. Cocaine. The revolving door of substance abuse treatment. But according to reports, Nick had schizophrenia. A serious psychotic disorder that Read more…
Judge Sid Harle denied the defense’s mistrial motion Wednesday in the Adrian Gonzales trial, but the battle over teacher Stephanie Hale’s testimony isn’t over. Harle called the prosecution’s failure to disclose information “negligent” and will decide Thursday whether to strike Hale’s entire testimony from the record. Hale testified Tuesday that Read more…
When your own forensics expert contradicts your murder theory, what do you do? According to court testimony in the Brendan Banfield case, Fairfax County Police transferred him out of the unit. Brendan Banfield stands accused of orchestrating the February 2023 murders of his wife Christine Banfield and Joseph Ryan with Read more…
What does it look like when a family loves someone to death — literally? Rob and Michele Reiner spent nearly two decades trying to save their son Nick from addiction and mental illness. They had every resource imaginable. Two hundred million dollars. Access to the best treatment programs in the Read more…
Defense attorney Bob Motta joins Hidden Killers to break down the seven-month delay in the Sarah Grace Patrick murder trial and what it reveals about the prosecution’s case — or lack of one. Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, is charged as an adult with two counts of murder in the shooting Read more…
The trial of former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales has begun in Corpus Christi, Texas. He’s charged with 29 counts of child endangerment for his response to the Robb Elementary massacre that killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24, 2022. Here’s what makes this case so infuriating: Read more…