Rob Reiner & Michele Singer's Final Hours Might Be Reconstructed Around a Missed Appointment

Hollywood is still shaken to its core over the loss of Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele Singer, as the Los Angeles Police Department attempts to reconstruct the timeline of their final hours — and one missed appointment might unlock a major clue.

The couple attended Conan O’Brien’s holiday party on Saturday, December 13, with their son, Nick Reiner, 32, according to TMZ. During the festivities, Rob and Nick engaged in a “very loud argument” that was witnessed by several other guests. Rob and his wife soon left O’Brien’s house, but it remains unclear whether Nick left with them.

LAPD now has to piece together what happened in the hours between the time they left the former late-night show host’s home and the discovery of their bodies by their daughter, Romy, 28, at their Brentwood, California, estate at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 14.

Now, a new clue, reported by the Daily Mail, may help investigators with the Reiners’ final timeline. According to the media outlet’s sources, the director of When Harry Met Sally had a 2 p.m. massage appointment booked at his home on Sunday. The massage therapist “rang the bell, knocked a number of times, and left when no one answered.”

That missed appointment reportedly sparked Romy’s decision to go check on her parents and led to the gruesome discovery of their bodies. It was a scene that a People insider described as a “Hollywood horror-scene nightmare.” Nick is currently being held without bail after being taken into custody on December 14.

Despite Nick’s long struggle with addiction, both Rob and Michele steadily remained by their troubled son’s side. They supported him through 17 stints in rehab by the age of 22, and still continued to offer him a place to stay when he needed housing. Still, Nick even admitted he was often on a path of destruction.

“I got totally spun out on uppers — I think it was coke and something else — and I was up for days on end,” Nick recalled of his 2017 relapse on the Dopey podcast in 2018. “I started punching out different things in my guest house…started with the TV and then I went over to the lamp…everything in the guest house got wrecked.”

Despite Nick’s struggles, friends of the Reiners admired the “tight-knit family.”

“They did everything together,” a source told People. “[Still] they could never reach stability with Nick. They tried everything — giving him space, keeping him close — but his struggles are so deep. It’s just a parent’s worst nightmare.”

Nick is expected in court on December 16, per Fox 11.

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