Michelle Obama has made a tragic admission about the night that Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer were killed, after the Reiners’ 32-year-old son Nick was charged with their murder.

The former First Lady and her husband Barack were due to meet the couple that evening.

Barack and Michelle Obama were due to meet up with the Reiners

The jarring revelation was made by Michelle Obama during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Monday night, as the ex-FLOTUS said: “We were supposed to be seeing them that night – last night.”

While Obama didn’t reveal exactly what their plans had been, it is known that Rob and Michele had attended a Christmas party hosted by their friend Conan O’Brien on Saturday night with their son Nick.

Now, Nick has been taken into custody and charged with felony murder; his bail was set at $4,000,000.

Reiner’s daughter has also spoken out following the killings.

The bodies were discovered at the Reiners’ family home

Rob and Michele were found dead at their house, having apparently been stabbed to death.

Fire crews attended the house initially, before the investigation was passed over to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Robbery and Homicide division once the circumstances became clearer.

Detectives quickly ‘determined that the Reiners were the victims of homicide’ and Nick was identified as a suspect and arrested that evening.

His bail was later removed and he remains in custody at the Parker Center.

Obama also took aim at Donald Trump for his comments on the tragedy

President Donald Trump shared a post on social media in which he called Rob Reiner ‘deranged’, drawing criticism from many corners of the political spectrum, including his former close ally Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Speaking about the current President’s comments, Michelle Obama said: “Let me just say this: unlike some people, Rob and Michele Reiner are some of the most decent, courageous people you ever want to know.

“They are not deranged or crazed.”

She continued: “What they have always been are passionate people who – in a time when there’s not a lot of courage going on – they were the kind of people who were ready to put their actions behind what they cared about.

“And they cared about their family. And they cared about this country. And they cared about fairness and equity. And that is the truth.”

Online, Barack had earlier shared a statement expressing his grief at the tragedy, stating: “Together, [Rob] and his wife lived lives defined by purpose.

“They will be remembered for the values they championed and the countless people they inspired.”

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Chris Watts - who brutally murdered his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two young daughters - has not abandoned his womanizing tendencies, even from behind bars.

Despite serving a life sentence for the murders, the 41-year-old former oil worker allegedly continues to manipulate and woo women, using emotional and religious tactics to keep their attention.

Chris Watts' Continuing Attempts to Woo Women in Prison

Watts, who is serving five consecutive life sentences at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, has reportedly been in contact with a number of women, sending handwritten letters that range from several pages long to full of religious symbolism and Bible references.

One of these women, a 36-year-old admirer named Deborah, spoke exclusively with The Daily Mail about her experience with Watts.

Watts is serving five life sentences Credit: Colorado Department of Public Safety

Deborah, who first encountered Watts through news reports, was drawn to his "handsome eyes" and his sincere-sounding words. As a Christian, she believed Watts’ claims that he had found religion in prison.

In late 2022, she sent him her first letter. To her surprise, Watts wrote back, and their correspondence continued for several years. Over time, however, their relationship began to change, with Watts becoming increasingly focused on his religious convictions, ultimately telling Deborah that they could no longer be together. In his final letter to her in late 2025, he wrote, "I believe that in a different time, I would have been able to be with you. But God has other plans for my life."

Watts’ Narcissistic Religious Claims

In letters to Deborah, Watts made several unsettling comparisons between his own life and the suffering of Jesus Christ, a tactic some criminal experts have described as typical narcissist behavior.

In a letter dated October 2025, Watts wrote, "God had a plan for me. He wants me in prison. This is His will, just like it was His will for Jesus to die for us. He wants to bring people closer to him through my suffering."

Continuing this comparison, Watts stated, "I will never fully understand what Christ went through when he was crucified, but my trials have given me a glimpse of it." He also expressed his belief that, like Jesus, he was fulfilling a higher purpose. "I am open to God's will, just like Jesus was open to the will of his father. He did not want to die but it was his father's will. I believe it’s his will that I am here. The only thing I regret is that I cannot see you."

Watts murdered his wife and kids. Credit: RJ Sangosti / Getty Images.

Watts' Prison Behavior: A Pattern of Manipulation

While imprisoned, Watts has reportedly corresponded with up to a dozen women at a time. Known for his prolific letter writing, he often sends multiple pages filled with religious rhetoric, painting himself as a transformed man. Despite this, he has not escaped his past manipulative behavior.

Former prison mate Dylan Tallman revealed that Watts "can't resist women's attention" and that his letters often make the women his "everything." Tallman noted that Watts was fixated on female attention and that many women wrote to him in prison, receiving regular responses in return.

Watts' Infamous Crimes and His Justifications

In August 2018, Chris Watts carried out a horrifying crime that left the nation in shock. He murdered his wife Shanann by strangling her in their Colorado home, then suffocated their two young daughters, Bella (4) and Celeste (3), before disposing of their bodies at an oil site where he worked. He later claimed that his desire to start a new life with his mistress, Nichol Kessinger, was the driving force behind the murders.

Watts' letters often reference his actions and provide a disturbing glimpse into his distorted justifications. In one letter to Tallman, Watts blamed Kessinger for his family’s deaths, calling her a "harlot" and a "Jezebel."

In his mind, she enticed him to commit the murders, writing, "The words of a harlot have brought me low. Her flattering speech was like drops of honey that pierced my heart and soul. Little did I know that all her guests were in the chamber of death."

A Disturbing View on Divorce and Adultery

In one of his letters, Watts further justified his actions by commenting on divorce and infidelity from a religious perspective. "Marriage was from the beginning," he wrote, adding that divorce was "tolerated due to the hardened hearts of the Israelites."

He described infidelity as a sin against both the wife and God, yet in his correspondence with Deborah, Watts claimed to have changed. "I was a cheater before, I committed adultery," he confessed.

"That was a sin. But I'm a changed man. Christ has forgiven me from everything. I am justified with him, and he views me as a saint. He sees only Christ's righteousness when he sees me; he sees me as sinless."

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A handwritten letter reportedly sent by convicted killer Taylor Parker to the father of her former partner has emerged, with the death row inmate apologizing for her crimes and asking repeatedly for forgiveness.

Parker, now 33, was sentenced to death four years ago after being found guilty of murdering her friend, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who was eight months pregnant, before cutting her unborn daughter from her womb in a horrific attempt to pass the baby off as her own.

At the time of the murder, Parker had convinced her then-boyfriend Wade Griffin that she was pregnant, despite having undergone a hysterectomy years earlier.

The shocking case is revisited in Netflix's Maternal Instinct, where Griffin speaks publicly for the first time about how Parker maintained the elaborate deception.

Reflecting on her pregnancy claims, he admitted they simply 'made sense to me.'

What did Parker ask of her ex's father?

Taylor Parker murdered her friend and unborn baby, having lied to her ex-partner about being pregnant. Credit Texas Department of Corrections

According to TMZ, which obtained the letter through Bowie County court records, Parker wrote to Wade's father, Jimmy Griffin, on September 20, 2022 - around a month before her capital murder conviction and nearly two years after the killing.

She began the handwritten note with a simple apology.

"Mr Jimmy. I'm sorry."

Parker explained it had taken her time to write because she had 'a lot on her mind and heart.'

Throughout the letter, she repeatedly asked Jimmy to forgive her while acknowledging she 'does not deserve it.'

She also spoke warmly about Wade's father, encouraging him to 'be patient with Wade,' claiming father and son 'don't always see eye to eye.'

According to the letter, Parker also suggested Wade had struggled with feelings of inadequacy.

She wrote that he 'has felt like a disappointment,' adding that he believed his father would never truly be proud of him.

Towards the end of the note, Parker reflected on her own circumstances, writing: "I don't know how this happened or why but I miss my kids and family, but I'm ok."

She finished by asking Jimmy for forgiveness once again before revealing she had not yet written to Wade, asking his father to 'keep it between us.'

In Maternal Instinct, Griffin explained how Parker successfully convinced him she was expecting despite having secretly lost the ability to have children years earlier.

Parker's lies

Following complications from pre-eclampsia in 2014, Parker had her tubes tied before undergoing a hysterectomy in 2015 after doctors determined she had suffered an ectopic pregnancy.

Griffin said the COVID-19 pandemic helped Parker keep him away from medical appointments.

"She would go to a doctors appointment, but I couldn’t ever go in with her because it was COVID at the time," he recalled.

"When I did try to go, she said the doctor had an emergency, or he couldn’t meet us, and we had to reschedule."

To support the lie, Parker reportedly wore a silicone pregnancy bump, posed for maternity photographs and regularly posted images of her apparent pregnancy on social media.

Prosecutors said Parker became fixated on Simmons-Hancock after learning she was expecting a baby girl.

On October 9, 2020, instead of travelling to Oklahoma as she had told Griffin for what she claimed would be an induced labour, Parker drove to Simmons-Hancock's home in New Boston, Texas.

Investigators said she killed the expectant mother before removing unborn daughter Braxlynn Sage from her womb.

Simmons-Hancock's three-year-old daughter was found unharmed inside the home.

Later that day, Parker was stopped by a Texas State Trooper after driving erratically.

As the officer approached, she called 911 requesting medical help, saying:

"I’m starting to have my baby."

The officer found Parker covered in dried blood while holding the infant, whose umbilical cord remained attached.

Doctors quickly established Parker had not given birth, leading to her arrest that same day.

Parker was indicted on charges including capital murder and kidnapping before being convicted in October 2022.

The following month, she was sentenced to death.

In May 2026, the US Supreme Court declined to hear her case, leaving her conviction and death sentence in place. She remains on death row, although no execution date has been scheduled.

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A California Governor has pardoned a woman who was convicted of murder as a teenager for killing a man who sexually abused and trafficked her.

Sara Kruzan was just 16 in 1994 when she robbed and murdered George Gilbert Howard in a motel room in Riverside, California. The following year, she was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison.

According to the Los Angeles Times, it was reported that Kruzan met Howard when she was 11 years old, and soon after their meeting, Howard trafficked her and forced her to have sexual intercourse with other men.

In 2011, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger reduced Kruzan's prison sentence to 25 years and included in his clemency petition of the chance of parole.

Two years later, in 2013, a Riverside judge lowered her sentence even further, and Kruzan was eventually released from prison that year when she was 35 years old. However, as the publication reported, her conviction impacted her ability to obtain work.

On July 1, Governor Newsom pardoned Kruzan, who was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, along with 17 others who were also granted clemency.

In Newsom's pardon, he declared that Kruzan had "provided evidence that she is living an upright life and has demonstrated her fitness for restoration of civic rights and responsibilities".

"Since then, Ms. Kruzan has transformed her life and dedicated herself to community service," Newsom said. "This act of clemency for Ms. Kruzan does not minimize or forgive her conduct or the harm it caused. It does recognize the work she has done since to transform herself."

While a governor's pardon does not overturn a conviction, a press release from the governor's office explained that the pardon does work to remove "counterproductive barriers to employment and public service".

However, Kruzan is still a convicted felon in California. Her legal team is now working to remove the criminal conviction and has sent a formal request to the Riverside County district attorney's office, asking them to examine the case again.

According to the LA Times, Kruzan says that the decision has released "these invisible chains that I didn't realize were still taloned in me".

"Do I wanna move forward with love? Or do I wanna move forward with fear, anger, and pain?" Kruzan said. "Now, I wanna move forward in love. And that takes a lot of courage to do that."

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New details about the murders committed by Chris Watts have resurfaced through letters he wrote from prison.

Watts, 41, killed his wife, Shanann Watts, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and daughters Bella, four, and Celeste, known as Cece, three, in Frederick, Colorado, in August 2018.

Initially, the father-of-three portrayed himself as a desperate husband searching for his missing family.

"Shanann, Bella, Celeste, if you’re out there, just come back," he said before he was arrested. "If somebody has her, just bring her back. I need to see everybody, I need to see everybody again. This house is not complete without anybody here."

His story later collapsed, and he eventually admitted to killing his entire family while pursuing a relationship with his co-worker, Nichol Kessinger.

The murders later became the subject of Netflix's 2020 documentary, American Murder: The Family Next Door, which introduced millions of viewers to one of the most notorious family homicide cases in recent memory.

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Watts claimed he had been thinking about killing his family for weeks

According to letters published by author Cheryln Cadle in the book, Letters from Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders, the father had been contemplating the murders for weeks before carrying them out.

"August 13, morning of, I went to the girls’ room first, before Shanann and I had our argument,” he wrote. "I went to Bella’s room, then Cece’s room, and used a pillow from their bed (to kill them). That’s why the cause of death was smothering. After I left Cece’s room, then I climbed back in bed with Shanann, and our argument ensued."

Watts went on to describe strangling Shanann, writing that her eyes "filled with blood" while black mascara "streamed down her face".

The father claimed that Bella and Cece later woke up after he had already killed their mother.

He wrote that Bella "looked like she had been through trauma" and that her "eyes were bruised".

"I realize now the girls getting up and walking around may have been God’s third attempt to stop what I was doing," he wrote.

Chris Watts killed his wife and two daughters. Credit: Instagram

Graphic evidence revealed the extent of the crime

After killing his family, Watts transported their bodies to an Anadarko Petroleum oil site where he worked.

A pregnant Shanann was buried in a shallow grave, while his daughters were forced through separate eight-inch openings into oil tanks.

Nearly eight years later, details from the investigation and autopsy findings continue to draw attention.

A woman who communicated with the killer during his time behind bars claimed he was particularly concerned about information contained in the girls' autopsy reports becoming public.

"He didn't want it to get out," she said, per Daily Mail. "I think once he realized what he had done, the idea was just too gruesome.

"If you read the reports, they're horrifying. He didn't want that to be out there, because that makes him look like even more of a monster," she added.

When Bella's body was recovered, she was still wearing a pink pajama-style top decorated with hearts and butterflies. Pathologists documented green-black oily fluid and debris in her stomach, as well as injuries inside her mouth, trauma to her jaw, and bite marks on her tongue.

Celeste was recovered wearing a pink-and-black t-shirt, a diaper, and underwear, all covered in oil and debris.

Watts ultimately pleaded guilty to nine charges, including murder and the unlawful termination of a pregnancy, on November 6, 2018.

He is currently serving five life sentences without parole in Wisconsin.

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