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Deadly Goals: The True Story of an All-American Football Hero Who Stalked and Murdered | 
 enlarge | Author: Wilt Browning
Publisher: Down Home Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 807918
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1878086553
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.153209755
EAN: 9781878086556
ASIN: 1878086553
Publication Date: April 1996
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Product Description
The twisted life of an all-American football hero and the woman he stalked and murdered. When Jeannie Butkowski vanished, her family had no doubt about who was responsible for her disappearance. Eight months later, the woman's charred remains were found in a dry creek bed in rural Virginia--a bullet lodged in the skull. Police never even questioned Pernell Jefferson, star player for the Cleveland Browns. It would take the determination of a savvy sheriff to bring him to justice. Photo insert.
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 Deadly Goals May 18, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Deadly Goals", is a true life book that places event that happened into different ways. Starts out with a famous college football player, for the N.A.I.A, as an all-American football star. Then ends up with court counts of murder of his own girl friend, and as an abusing of a victim. Steroids also messed up his career as pro NFL player for the Cleveland Browns.
This cruel man's name is Parnell Jefferson. Parnell to many reviewers is compared to the O.J. Simpson case. Parnell had many mistakes in a roll of this book The Miami cop that found Parnell doesn't like to let his cases to go to crap. By doing so in this book he showed his part in the book, by taking him behind bars.
Parnell was believed to be not caught only if he hadn't walked out of the pros'. Also in his wild use of steroids, that made him great into his work, he was charged with a huge amount of a fine.
I would recommend this book to an adult reader, because all of the use of backtracking or flashbacks. All of this concludes to a hard understand book. This book does have a lot of details in it. And so that brings to my thinking of why this book isn't all that great. But the thought of what happened to the victims was horrible and the fact that the time he serves is great to hear. The NFL got a bad outlook of this all.
 Hell Hound September 15, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The emotional rollercoaster ride this horrible story took me on went from anger to tearjerking pain to disbelief, sympathy to pitilessness and back again. Several times I looked up from the compelling and well-written narrative to find my two dogs looking at me strangely, no doubt mystified as to the mood they sensed, but no one should be unaffected by this document of a wasted life and the lives ruined in its process. The worst of the domestic violence I witnessed and experienced as a child could not compare to this stupefying tale of the women unlucky enough to love a genuine monster - literally "to death," which term people use far too carelessly. This "person" can hang all the blame for his reprehensible behavior and murderous actions on those drugs he likes, I believe rather that they only magnified and enhanced some ingrained personality flaw instead of completely transforming him into a way out-of-control creature mindless and heedless of such change. And even with all of his statements to that effect, with the violence-littered path he was on that led to the unjust demise of Regina Marie Prickett Butkowski ["Jeannie" to her loved ones], this character still refuses to squarely take responsibility for his actions. His is the tale of a classic manipulative control-freak abuser, only unfortunately enhanced by dangerous drugs, which as the sad historical data indicate are hardly necessary for that kind of [mis]behavior. This story of a "man" from a town not far from where I live with the venomous power to both charm and destroy his victims at the same time should, in my opinion, not only be an essential part of every women's shelter resources or those of other organizations dealing with these issues, but I recommend to anybody who knows someone whom they are definitely aware or suspect is entangled in an abusive relationship that they either give them this book or relate the hideous story of betrayal and murder, psychological as well as physical, within its pages. Although the dust-jacket blurb proclaims it has "startling parallels" to a certain justice-denied double murder in Brentwood 11 years ago, it's actually the other way around since this case was concluded 3 years before Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman were reduced to bloody shreds of human beings by a more famous monster. If that celebrity-filled tale doesn't resonate with the masses to a great influential degree, those lifestyles being largely out of their reach, then this one which predates it should; because the people involved are ordinary folk who became trapped in a situation they found difficult to believe was itself ordinary - and in that aspect of it lies the most frightful dangers of all.
 Good flashback true crime. Neo-noir? June 7, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Deadly Goals" is the story of one Pernell Jefferson, a former Small College (N.A.I.A.) All-American football star. He was convicted of the abduction and murder of his girl friend by a Virginia court. His abuse of the victim, Jeannie, and other females was acerbated by the heavy use of steroids to enhance his football prowess. DG is fast, linear, no-nonsense reading. There is a total absence of mystery here. DG is told in classic flashback style. The reader knows the ending from the outset. We only have to read to learn how the wheels of justice turned. BG even includes a note from Mr. Jefferson, penned from the Virginia State big house. A strong point of DG is that all the very real life characters come across as genuine people, warts and all. A disturbing aspect is that not all police departments prosecute abuse toward women equally aggressively. Jefferson's violent proclivities happened in different locales and the Miami and Chesapeake, VA cops were lethargic in pursuing him or responding to his victims' allegations. Jeannie's' abduction, murder and dumping of her body happened in a smaller Virginia town, which would not tolerate such crimes. This reviewer can picture DG as a classic 1940-50s-film noir, with the purp telling his tale from behind bars. He can see Lizabeth Scott or Veronica Lake as the unfortunate victim and perhaps Pat O'Brien and Brian Dunlevy as the detective and prosecutor who bring Pernell down. DG has definite big screen potential, with or without the noir. Any reader must wonder what Pernell's life might have been like had he NOT walked out of the Cleveland Brown's summer camp. (Some observers felt he would have made the squad as a rookie). There was also the controversial introduction of a taped phone conversation with Jeannie as crucial prosecutional evidence at his trial. Making the team might have kept Jefferson out of trouble; exclusion of the tape might have exonerated him, albeit free to abuse other women. BG is recommended as a good no-nonsense straightforward true crime tale. A star is deducted for the lack of any true suspense.
Where is Ann Rule when you need her? October 9, 2002
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Maybe I have been spoiled, but I wish Ann Rule had done this book. I didn't feel like I really got inside any of the people and there were so many details and descriptions left out. Loose ends lingered and left me wanting to know more. A true crime story should grab a hold of the reader and put them in the situation with the people involved. I never felt that way with Deadly Goals - more like I was an outsider looking in.
Still, an interesting, quick and very easy read. I read it in a few hours and a fine read for the beach or when traveling.
'Pernell's stacking' of unwanted anger and violence May 20, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The main character Pernell Jefferson is portrayed brilliantly in this book by Wilt Browning. He shows the the unfortunate death of a young women who just can't escape the clutches of her ex-boyfriend. Wilt got together with all the witnesses who had anything to do with the trial to get both their story and their view of Pernell. Mr. Browning through his book shows the anger and agression that Pernell was building in his head due to the many years of stacking(consuming) anabolic steroids. In addition, he shows the ordeals that Jeanie had to go through and the eventual death that became of her because Pernell could not control himself.
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