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Nick Reiner once admitted he faked being ‘crazy’ to get medication


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Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, for which he faces life in prison without parole or the death penalty. Photo: AP

Nearly a decade before he was charged in the grisly murders of Rob and Michele Reiner, the couple’s son Nick Reiner told a podcast he’d concocted a plan in which he faked being “crazy” to get access to medication.

In a resurfaced 2016 clip from the Dopey: On The Dark Comedy Of Drug Addiction podcast, the now-32-year-old recalled manufacturing a mentally unstable state in order to get Wellbutrin (antidepressant medication) while checked into the Alina Lodge addiction treatment centre in New Jersey.

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