Journalist
CurrentRobert Rand is an Emmy and duPont Award winning journalist who began covering the Menendez brothers' case for the Miami Herald the day after the killings in August, 1989. Rand was awarded a Los Angeles Emmy Award for two years of stories at KCOP-TV in L.A. about an illegal immigrant who was wrongly convicted. The stories resulted in the overturning of a ten-year-old conviction and the release of the man from jail. He was nominated for several Emmys as a member of the Special Assignment investigative reporting group at CBS 2 L.A. and the I-Team at KYW CBS 3 in Philadelphia that won a Columbia-duPont Silver Baton Award for a year-long series about wealthy property tax dodgers.Robert Rand is Co-EP of a new documentary series ‘Menendez + Menudo Boys Betrayed’ that began streaming on Peacock May 2, 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 on May 3, 2023.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. Playboy published Rand's article "Menendez Confidential" in July 1995 which previewed the second Menendez trial. 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. Twitter - @MenendezRand IG/TikTok - @imrobertrand/Website: MenendezMurders.com
