He wrote two nonfiction books: 83 Hours Till Dawn, an account of a notorious Florida kidnapping in which the victim, Barbara Jane Mackle, was buried alive, and Invitation to a Lynching.
Over the decades Miller would cover or edit coverage for a wide swath of historic stories, but it was his investigation of four flawed murder convictions that established his legacy.
Miller won the first Pulitzer in 1967 for separate investigations into the cases of Joe Shea and Mary Katherin Hampton, each innocent people who had been falsely convicted of murder who were freed thanks to his reporting.
[1] In 1976, Miller won again after writings stories that freed two black Death Row inmates, Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee, who had been condemned to die in 1963 for the murders of two white gas station attendants in Port St. Joe, Florida.
Miller, who left a vivid and stylishly choppy imprint on the stories he edited,[3] was the editor for two more Pulitzer wins at the Miami Herald: Edna Buchanan in 1986 and Sydney Freedberg in 1991.