Deadly Goals The True Story of an All-American Football Hero Who Stalked and Murdered

In this chilling story with startling parallels to the O.J. Simpson case, journalist Wilt Browning prods deep into the twisted life of All-American football hero Pernell Jefferson & the women he stalked & terrorized. Reared in poverty in Benson, North Carolina, Jefferson saw sports as his way out. His future looked bright indeed when he led his Guilford College team to high national ranking, became the leading kick returner in the nation & signed with the Cleveland Browns. But Jefferson's confident & charming demeanor was only a cover for the deep insecurities & fears of rejection that led him to walk out of the Brown's training camp just as he was about to be offered a starting spot on the team & caused him to inflict vicious abuses on the women who loved him. Jeannie Butkowwski was one of those women. When she was discovered missing from her home in Chesapeake, Virginia, just two months after she had been abducted, raped & beaten after trying to break off her relationship with Jefferson, her family had no doubt about who was responsible for her disappearance. But police never even questioned Jefferson. Eight months later, hunters discovered Jeannie's charred remains in a dry creek bed in Amelia County, Virginia, & a savvy rural sheriff became determined to stop Jefferson's reign of terror & bring him to justice. A spellbinding, true-life thriller.Browning, Wilt is the author of 'Deadly Goals The True Story of an All-American Football Hero Who Stalked and Murdered' with ISBN 9781878086556 and ISBN 1878086553.