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Deadly Goals Down Home Press In this chilling story with startling parallels to the O. J. Simpson case, journalist Wilt Browning takes us deep into the twisted life of All-American football hero Pernell Jefferson and the women he stalked and terrorized. Reared in poverty in Benson, North Carolina, Pernell saw sports as his way out. His future looked bright indeed when he led his Guilford College football team to high national ranking, became the leading kick returner in the nation, and signed with the Cleveland Browns. But Pernell's confident and charming demeanor was only a cover for the the deep insecurities and 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 and caused him to inflict vicious abuses on the women who loved him. Jeannie Butkowski 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, and beaten after trying to break off her relationship with Pernell, her family had no doubt about who was responsible for her disappearance. But police never even questioned Pernell. Eight months later, hunters discovered Jeannie's charred remains in a dry creek bed in Amelia County, and a savvy rural county sheriff became determined to stop Pernell's reign of terror and bring him to justice.
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