December 19, 2025
Can the Reiner family tragedy ever be explained?
By Patricia McCarthy
The unspeakable tragedy that has been visited upon the family of Rob Reiner has likely left all parents in shock.
Given what has been available to read about Nick Reiner these past several days, since the murder of his parents, it has shed a little light on what that family has endured since their son Nick was eight years old, maybe even before that.
He was apparently a difficult child long before he became a drug user.
His parents tried to help him way back then after he disrupted their yoga sessions.
They hired their trainer to work specifically with Nick, thinking yoga would help him focus and reduce his obvious anxiety.
It did not work as Alana Zabel, that yoga teacher, has asserted. With the Reiners’ permission, she wrote a children’s book about a child like Nick, A Chair in the Air. She began working with Nick when he was eight.
Clearly, Nick Riener came with, was perhaps born with, a condition that caused his behavioral problems long before drugs made his behavior worse.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/12/can_the_reiner_family_tragedy_ever_be_explained.html
