Robert Rand is an Emmy and duPont-Columbia Award winning journalist who began covering the Menendez brothers' case for the Miami Herald over 35 years ago - the day after the killing of Jose and Kitty Menendez on August 20, 1989. He is the only reporter who covered the investigation in 1989 and was in court daily for each six month long Menendez trial in 1993-94 and 1995-96. He provided analysis for Court TV, CNN, ABC News, and CBS News. Rand spent three days interviewing Erik and Lyle Menendez two months after the murders and five months before their March 1990 arrest. The Miami Herald published the first speculation that the investigation was focused on them in December 1989 in Rand's story titled “Who Killed the Next U.S. Senator from Florida?” Rand's cover story for People Magazine two weeks after the brothers were arrested, "A Beverly Hills Paradise Lost," was published March 26, 1990. Robert Rand is Co-EP of a documentary series ‘Menendez + Menudo Boys Betrayed’ that began streaming on Peacock May 2, 2023. The docuseries was the highest rated documentary on Peacock in 2023. New evidence Rand has developed could be the foundation for the Menendez brothers to reopen their case. A new habeas corpus petition asking the courts to review the Menendez Brothers’ case and vacate their 1996 convictions was filed a day after the docuseries premiered.In March 1991, Playboy published Rand’s article “The Killing of Jose Menendez.” The 14,000-word story is the longest article ever published by Playboy. Rand’s print work includes stories contributed to The Guardian, People, Playboy, Stern, Grazia, and Tropic, the Sunday magazine of the Miami Herald. In July 2016, Rand was hired by Wolf Entertainment as a consultant for the development of NBC's eight hour limited series ‘Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders’ which aired in 2017. Rand’s book, "The Menendez Murders," published by Ben Bella Books in September 2018, provided the primary source material for the series. Rand has appeared as a featured interview in dozens of documentaries about the Menendez case, including ABC 20/20’s ‘Truth and Lies: The Menendez Brothers,’ and Dateline NBC’s ‘Unthinkable: The Menendez Murders.’ ABC's ‘Inside the New Menendez Brothers’ Supporters Movement’ in 2021. On September 10, 2024, Ben Bella Books released the "Updated Edition" of Rand's September 2018 book "The Menendez Murders" with a new section titled "Epilogue 2024."Robert Rand is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his two children.