Pulitzer Prize winner and Indiana University journalism alumnus Gene Miller died June 17 at his home in Miami at age 76.

Miller spent 48 years at the Miami Herald as a reporter and editor and won two Pulitzer Prizes. The first prize in 1967 was for investigative reporting that cleared two people convicted in separate murder cases.

The second prize, awarded in 1976, was based on Miller's eight-year examination of a 1963 murder case that resulted in two men sentenced to death row. Over 130 stories, most by Miller, documented police beatings and evidence of a confession by a third man never charged in the murder. Both men convicted of the murder were freed in 1975.

Miller was born in Evansville and graduated from Indiana University in 1950. In 1977, he earned an honorary degree from IU.

As do many journalists, Miller wrote his own obituary, published on the Miami Herald's Web site the day of his death. In it, he recounted his days as a $12 a week copyboy at the Evansville Press, where he "misfiled clips in the morgue." After reporting stints at the Wall Street Journal and the News Leader in Richmond, Va., he landed at the Miami Herald in 1957.

The obituary is online at the newspaper's Web site, along with excerpts from Miller's reporting and reminiscences about Miller from friends and colleagues.

The Herald also interviewed the two men freed from death row as a result of Miller's investigative reporting for a story posted June 21. Read more here.