The Menendez Murders, Updated Edition

“Through his unparalleled access—and his relentlessly detailed reporting—Robert Rand became America’s unofficial ‘Menendez whisperer’ when this story dominated the news. Now, Rand is back, with stunning, never-before-seen revelations in The Menendez Murders—a landmark work that upends everything we thought we knew about these crimes, and may rock the criminal justice system.” —Evan Wright, New York Times bestselling author of Generation Kill  “Robert Rand, having covered this case from the beginning, is the only journalist who attended both trials gavel to gavel … This book tells the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”  —Hazel Thornton, author of Hung Jury: The Diary of a Menendez Juror

Robert Rand is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who works in TV, print, and digital media. He began covering the Menendez brothers case for the Miami Herald the day after the killings on August 21, 1989. He was in court daily for both trials and provided analysis for Court TV, ABC, and CBS News. In March 1991, Playboy published Rand’s article “The Killing of Jose Menendez.” The 14,000-word story was the longest article ever published by Playboy. Rand’s print work includes stories contributed to People, The Guardian, Stern, Grazia, and Tropic, the Sunday magazine of the Miami Herald. He covered the William Kennedy Smith rape trial for Paris Match.

In July 2016, Rand was hired by Wolf Films as a consultant working on the development of the NBC eight-hour limited series Law & Order True Crime- The Menendez Murders, which aired in the fall of 2017. Rand’s unpublished manuscript of The Menendez Murders provided the primary source material for the series.

Rand has appeared as the primary 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,” which both aired in 2017.

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 a member of the Special Assignment investigative reporting group at CBS 2 in L.A. and the I-Team at KYW TV (Philadelphia) that won a Columbia-DuPont Silver Baton Award for a year-long series about wealthy property tax dodgers.