Marimow received two Pulitzer Prizes: In 1977, he and a partner, Jonathan Neumann, revealed how Philadelphia police detectives were beating suspects and witnesses in order to secure confessions. Those stories led to a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and the reversal of a homicide conviction for Robert "Reds" Wilkinson, who had been falsely convicted of firebombing a Hispanic man's home in Feltonville... The Inquirer received the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the homicide series and follow-up stories about police violence on the streets of Philadelphia...in 1985, Marimow received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for stories describing how a small group of K-9 officers in Philadelphia were commanding their police dogs to attack innocent, unarmed men and women. That same year, he was The Inquirer's lead reporter on the story of the bombing of the MOVE house on Osage Ave. in which 11 occupants of the radical group's home died and an entire city block was destroyed by fire. Those stories were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1986.
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Marimow received two Pulitzer Prizes: In 1977, he and a partner, Jonathan Neumann, revealed how Philadelphia police detectives were beating suspects and witnesses in order to secure confessions. Those stories led to a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department and the reversal of a homicide conviction for Robert "Reds" Wilkinson, who had been falsely convicted of firebombing a Hispanic man's home in Feltonville... The Inquirer received the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for public service for the homicide series and follow-up stories about police violence on the streets of Philadelphia...in 1985, Marimow received the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for stories describing how a small group of K-9 officers in Philadelphia were commanding their police dogs to attack innocent, unarmed men and women. That same year, he was The Inquirer's lead reporter on the story of the bombing of the MOVE house on Osage Ave. in which 11 occupants of the radical group's home died and an entire city block was destroyed by fire. Those stories were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for general news reporting in 1986.