Email Author Wyatt Olson

Awards

• 2007 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published August 10, 2006

  "Reef Madness"

• 2006 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 15, 2005

  "The Littlest Felons"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  "Attack of the Killer Weed"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published September 15, 2005

  "The Bad Hands People"

• 2006 - The Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism Awards/Atlanta SPJ, published September 15, 2005

  "The Bad Hands People"

• 2006 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published July 28, 2005

  "Cybercreep"

• 2006 - Sunshine State Awards/South Florida Society of Professional Journalists, published December 15, 2005

  "The Littlest Felons"

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2001 Stories by Wyatt Olson

• Coitus Interruptus

  published December 27, 2001

  The second-story amphitheater of the Xchange swingers club in Hollywood was as busy as it was going... More >>

• This Bad House

  published December 6, 2001

  Delia Judd's jaw visibly grinds as she stands before the Nuisance Abatement Board. The gaunt black woman gazes at the floor, shakes her head... More >>

• Osama's Bull's-eye

  published November 15, 2001

  Although Americans will forever recall September 11 with dismay, anger, and sorrow, October 7 is the date fear hit home for David Pitchford. His... More >>

• Anthrax Side Show

  published October 18, 2001

  It's high noon, and the TV-news folk are gathered across the street from the American Media, Inc. offices, which swarm with agents from the More >>

• The Rise and Fall of the Hallmark Kid

  published October 11, 2001

  Dark-suited attorneys clog the antechamber to bankruptcy courtroom 308. Six days after the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the... More >>

• Hustling for Models

  published September 6, 2001

  At 33 years old, Ivette Mendive had wearied of her job as a dental hygienist and craved a dramatic change in her life. So early this year the... More >>

• Festive Debt

  published August 23, 2001

  Sistrunk is the historic hub of Broward County's black population. Although the recent census found many of the neighborhood's residents have... More >>

• Peebles Power

  published August 16, 2001

  Seated in his office on the 46th floor of the Bank of America building in downtown Miami, developer R. Donahue Peebles looks quite relaxed. The... More >>

• Train Dreck

  published July 19, 2001

  Cypress Bend is a bucolic setting for about 2000 condominium units. Most of the 100-or-so buildings range from five to nine stories, and a lane... More >>

• Out of 'Toon

  published July 5, 2001

  From its exterior the International Museum of Cartoon Art in Boca Raton betrays little of the playfulness of... More >>

• Requiem for a Butcher

  published June 7, 2001

  The incident was so bizarre it could have been a macabre April Fool Day's prank. Shortly before dawn on April 1, 1998, Marie Bellabe, dressed in a... More >>

• Ash & Burn

  published May 31, 2001

  As Brian Dodge and Mike Silver approached the entryway to Storm around 9 p.m., the sound of DJ-spun music pulsated into the street from the... More >>

• Dead Drugged

  published May 10, 2001

  Stevie Steiner telephoned friends and family every few days after moving from rural New York to South Florida on January 3. The healthy, muscular... More >>

• Guardian Gone

  published April 26, 2001

  Irving Reisfeld has that sound in his voice. Sitting at a small desk in a disheveled office, he has just reached a human on the phone after a... More >>

• The Doctor's Dilemma

  published March 15, 2001

  Norman Smith lives in a modest one-story home on an idyllic street canopied by trees and lined with shrubbery. Five years into a committed... More >>