The news broke Sunday night.
"2 People Found Dead at Rob Reiner's Los Angeles Home," a TMZ headline read Dec. 14. A film icon – who played Archie Bunker's son-in-law, "Meathead," in "All in the Family" and directed "When Harry Met Sally" and became a Hollywood power player – was gone.
Across the country, in Providence, Rhode Island, authorities apprehended a person of interest – the wrong person – the same evening after a shooter opened fire in a Brown University classroom, killing two students at the Ivy League institution.
The Dec. 19 deadline for release of the Jeffrey Epstein files loomed large, shrouded in mystery, much like the convicted sex offender's ties to the world's rich and famous.
Rob Reiner's final weekend, Conan O'Brien's party and unfathomable violence
