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Nick Reiner was placed under a conservatorship five years before the killings of his parents, Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner. The New York Times reports that Reiner entered into a mental health conservatorship in 2020 that ended in 2021. Licensed fiduciary Steven Baer was appointed conservator for Reiner, according to the outlet. Baer told The Times that mental illness "is an epidemic that is widely misunderstood, and this is a horrible tragedy”. Meanwhile, People reported that Reiner had been prescribed medication for schizophrenia at some point before he allegedly killed his parents.