MONDAY, JUNE 27 This week of mysterious corpses and high-profile convictions kicks off with the latter, as today Rod Blagojevich became the second governor of Illinois in a row to be convicted of corruption. As history buffs will recall, Blagojevich was booted from the Illinois governor's office in 2009 amid allegations that he'd solicited bribes from those interested in filling Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. Despite the FBI's possession of hundreds of hours of audiotape featuring a foul-mouthed Blagojevich discussing what he expected in exchange for the seat, Blagojevich arrogantly maintained his innocence, positing himself as some sort of blue-collar country cousin of Donald Trump, with a similar "I invent history with my mouth!" swagger and wiggy hairdo. Today a Chicago jury called bullshit on the deposed governor's steadfast delusions, finding Blagojevich guilty of 17 criminal counts, including fraud, attempted extortion, and bribery, for which the 54-year-old Blago faces 20 years in jail.

TUESDAY, JUNE 28 Today brings the week's first mysterious corpse, this one discovered early this morning near Houston, where a police officer stopped a Mazda for driving without its headlights on and got a gnarly surprise. "As he approached the black Mazda 626, the Precinct 8 deputy noticed the driver had blood on his face," reports the Houston Chronicle. "He also saw that the front windshield was shattered and partially inside the vehicle. The deputy constable then saw a body in the passenger seat, partially underneath the dashboard and with a severed leg." Authorities soon identified the body as Fadel Steadman, a 32-year-old man whom witnesses saw running back and forth across the freeway before he was fatally struck by the car allegedly driven by 45-year-old James Onak, with the collision reportedly sending Steadman's body through Onak's windshield and into the Mazda's passenger seat, where Steadman's body remained while Onak kept driving, allegedly oblivious to his shattered windshield and the legless corpse riding shotgun. After three miles, Onak was stopped by the officer and now stands charged with felony failure to stop and render aid involving a fatality and driving while intoxicated, for which he faces up to 10 years in prison.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29 The week continues with an update in the Greenwood rape case, in which a 20-year-old woman, who was walking with a friend last week in Seattle's Greenwood neighborhood, was abducted by two men, both of them strangers, who beat and raped her before dropping her off near Green Lake. Police soon released a sketch and surveillance photos of one of the alleged attackers, and last night brought an arrest, thanks to some ace finagling by the staff of Goofy's Bar and Grill in Crown Hill. As the Seattle Times reports, Goofy's staffers noted the similarities between the widely disseminated police sketch and one of the bar's semiregular customers, a 24-year-old man who ordered Coronas with lime. Tonight the man returned to Goofy's, where one bartender served him a drink while another called 911. "Police arrived and escorted the man and his drinking companion outside," reports the Times. "During a pat down, an officer discovered a loaded handgun in the suspect's waistband. The suspect, who has not yet been charged, was booked into the King County Jail on Wednesday on investigation of rape." The search for the second suspect (who wore a mask and brandished a gun) continues.

THURSDAY, JUNE 30 Today brings the second of the week's mystery corpses, this one found at the bottom of a public pool in Massachusetts, where it had gone unnoticed by swimmers and city inspectors for two days. Details come from CNN, which reports that the pool ran only 12 feet deep and identifies the ignored corpse as 36-year-old Marie Joseph. "Joseph had gone to the pool on Sunday with a 9-year-old neighbor and his family," reports CNN. "She collided with the boy while the pair careened down a pool slide... After the collision, the boy surfaced but the woman did not." (To answer your reflexive WTF?: "It was not clear [today] what happened after the collision or whether the boy and his family sought Joseph's whereabouts when they left the pool.") Pertinent facts: Mere hours before the corpse was detected, a health inspector had examined the pool, noting the cloudiness of the water but failing to notice the corpse. (Also, a decomposing body can take a couple days to become buoyant.) The lifeguards and managers of the swimming pool and three health inspectors have been placed on administrative leave, and 24 state pools have been closed pending further investigation.

FRIDAY, JULY 1 Today brings a long-awaited and crucial step forward in the saga of Teresa Butz, the South Seattle woman who, along with her partner, was attacked by a knife-wielding stranger in their South Park home. Both women were raped, Teresa Butz was murdered, and today the man responsible was convicted of every crime he was charged with, including premeditated murder in the first degree, felony murder, attempted premeditated murder, rape, and burglary. "All of these crimes, the jury found, were committed with a deadly weapon and with sexual motivation or deliberate cruelty," reports The Stranger's Eli Sanders. "As for Isaiah Kalebu's forthcoming sentence: In Washington State, a conviction for first-degree premeditated murder comes with a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole." For more on the Kalebu verdict, see Sanders's coverage on page 9.

SATURDAY, JULY 2 In lesser news, the week continues with one of those awful instances in which a vast human life is eclipsed by its ridiculous end, thanks to today's fatally ironic motorcycle protest in upstate New York, where a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws flipped over his bike's handlebars, hit his head on the pavement, and died. "Troopers say [he] would have likely survived if he had been wearing a helmet," reports the Associated Press.

SUNDAY, JULY 3 The week ends in Thailand, where today's general election brought a decisive triumph for the populist Pheu Thai party and Yingluck Shinawatra, who will become the country's first female prime minister.

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