Miami New Times Best Investigations of 2012: A Wrongly Charged Boxer, Corrupt Mayors and Bogus Pot Busts
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When an elderly man named Glen Tucker killed his wife, Virginia, his cat and then himself in their Florida Keys home, most everyone thought it was a typically sad end-of-life murder-suicide. But managing editor Tim Elfrink's piece found that Tucker had hidden a deep secret from all his neighbors: He'd once been one of Wisconsin's most prominent plastic surgeons, but faked his own death and fled to the Keys decades ago to run from accusations of brutal malpractice.
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For decades, Otis Wallace -- the long-serving mayor of Florida City -- has been one of South Florida's political constants. But as Michael E. Miller's investigation showed, Wallace's long term in office corrupted him into a multi-millionaire landowner in one of Dade's poorest towns, accused of rigging elections, engineering shady land deals and even kicking his own sister out of their deceased mother's home.
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