Devastating new details emerge about the moment Rob Reiner's daughter discovered his body

Devastating new details have emerged about the moment Rob Reiner’s daughter Romy discovered his body.

According to The New York Times, the 27-year-old arrived at her parents’ Brentwood home on Sunday afternoon after she was contacted by a massage therapist who was unable to access the property.

After entering the house and discovering her father’s body, Romy allegedly “fled” the property without knowing that her mother Michele was also dead inside.

According to a source close to the family, Romy was later told by a paramedic that Michele had also been killed.

Hours after their bodies were found, Rob and Michele’s 32-year-old son Nick was located by police and arrested near the University of Southern California campus at about 9.15pm.

Nick has since been charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special allegation of using a knife.

If convicted, he faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Alongside Romy and Nick, Rob and Michele were also parents to their eldest son Jake, 34.

The Reiner family are highly-respected in Hollywood, and the news of their deaths has rocked the entertainment industry.

District Attorney Hochman said: “Prosecuting cases involving family violence are some of the most challenging and heart-wrenching we face because of the intimate and often brutal nature of the crimes.”

“Rob Reiner was one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation. His murder and his wife’s murder more than 35 years ago, Michele Singer Reiner’s murder, are shocking and tragic. We owe it to their memory to pursue justice and accountability for the lives that were taken.”

Mr Hochman stated that the charges carry the maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.

Still, he added that no decision had been made concerning the death penalty.

When Nick Reiner was apprehended hours later in the Exposition Park neighbourhood, close to the University of Southern California, around four miles from the crime scene, he did not resist, according to the police.

He was supposed to appear in court for the first time earlier on Tuesday, but according to his lawyer, he was not transported from jail to the courthouse due to medical reasons.

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