St. Clair County
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Sep 21, 2026
Josie Duffy RiceHOST
Episode three, The Ninja.
Josie Duffy RiceHOST
By the time Robert Cleland, the head prosecutor in St. Clair County, Michigan, had heard about the murder of a local mayor's son, he was already having what I imagine must have been a pretty bad day.
Josie Duffy RiceHOST
It was the day after Election Day.
Josie Duffy RiceHOST
Cleland had been the Republican candidate for Michigan Attorney General.
Josie Duffy RiceHOST
He was nobody's first choice, picked in a last-minute scramble after the original candidate dropped out, and outside of St. Clair County, he had no name recognition.
Josie Duffy RiceHOST
But Robert Cleland had a few things going for him.
Josie Duffy RiceHOST
He was a moderate, plus he was young, just thirty-nine, tall, and he had a presence in a way, some gravitas.
Herb WelzerSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He was just to the point, very intelligent, very thorough, well-spoken.
Josie Duffy RiceGUEST
I mean, he was so excited to talk about how he had hypnotized this witness 40 years ago.
Josie Duffy RiceGUEST
I think it speaks to kind of the nature of, this was the first murder in St. Clair County in 18 months.
Josie Duffy RiceGUEST
The guy who's running this case, his name was Sergeant John Bounds, and he had been he got himself in a lot of trouble over the years before and after this case this was his first murder case then at the scene we have a traffic cop and we have some other officers but like we have a lot of people who have never done a murder case before which is how we get out of this with no physical evidence right and so the hypnotist who's the teacher of this kid says to me like oh I just heard there was a murder and I heard one of the witnesses was in my class and so I went And I just offered to hypnotize him.
Josie Duffy RiceGUEST
My guess is that's not what happened.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Mr. Williams informs me that there are but eight persons of American descent now living who were residents of Detroit in 1815.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Ephraim S. Williams, now of Genesee County, Benjamin O. and Alfred Williams of Shiawassee County, Mrs. Schuyler of Oakland County, Benjamin Woodworth of St. Clair County, Elphias Williams and Harriet Rogers of California, and Harvey Williams of Saginaw County.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
Uncle Harvey is the pioneer blacksmith, the pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements, the pioneer engine builder, and the pioneer lumberman of the Saginaw Valley.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
I have hastily compiled these incidents in his life, deeming it but just and proper that one so long, for over half a century, identified with the interests of Michigan, should be honored at this meeting of the state pioneers.
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Ted LinhartNARRATOR
They invited me to share with them.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
They were practically illustrating men's rights to do and live independent of all womankind.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
After spending a week at Fort Gratiot, I came down the river as far as the county seat of St. Clair County on foot.
Ted LinhartNARRATOR
It was then called Palmer.
Anya KaneHOST
Okay.
Anya KaneHOST
My source is the Times-Herald, and this is out of St. Clair County, so you know who is involved in this.
Anya KaneHOST
And St. Clair County, of course, is where Port Huron is.
Anya KaneHOST
And we've covered the Temujin Kenzu case, the murder of Scott Macklin, which is a Port Huron case.
Anya KaneHOST
And this is a very sad tragedy out of Port Huron that happened a number of years ago, but it's only recently sort of come to a head, come to a resolution.
Anya KaneHOST
And there were protests, actually.
Anya KaneHOST
I believe Rita Williams, who has done some good articles on the Temujin Kenzu case for her blog Clutch Justice, I think she was involved in some of those protests.
Anya KaneHOST
And basically saying, hey, St. Clair County Prosecutor's Office, why is this going uncharged? But what the prosecutor's office was saying was like, we don't have a case.