LOS ANGELES, Dec 16 — Los Angeles police charged the son of Hollywood director Rob Reiner with murder yesterday after the suspect’s parents were found stabbed in a brutal double killing that shocked movie fans around the world.

Nick Reiner, 32, was detained hours after the bodies of the 78-year-old actor-director and his wife, 70-year-old Michele Singer Reiner, were discovered in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles on Sunday, with multiple reports that they had been stabbed to death or had their throats slit.