Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast
Is This Plastic Surgeon Evil? - The Dr. Tomasz Kosowski story
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Plastic surgeon Dr. Tomasz Kosowski aka Dr. TampaBay is accused of murdering a lawyer Steven Cozzi
Chapter 1: Who is Dr. Tampa Bay?
So this doctor is about to unalive someone over some negative online reviews. Allegedly. Now the doctor's name is Dr. Tampa Bay. And Dr. Tampa Bay, he's a plastic surgeon. He's trying to build a name for himself, posting videos of himself on YouTube and on his Instagram account.
Hi, Instagrammers. I just wanted to let you all know we hit 4,000 followers last night, which is awesome.
Chapter 2: What led to the bad reviews for Dr. Tampa Bay?
And bro has a pretty good reputation with his patients and his colleagues. But one day all that changes because one of his patients posts a bad review of him online and Dr. Tampa Bay is like, what the fuck? And then he gets another and another and another and it happens again and again and he keeps getting more bad reviews.
Chapter 3: How did Dr. Tampa Bay respond to the negative reviews?
So he looks into it and allegedly some of his patients are upset and it has to do with improper billing. But it's not actually his fault. He doesn't do the billing. It's the fault of the plastic surgery institute he works for. But it kind of doesn't matter because bad reviews like this can ruin a doctor's career. So Dr. Tampa Bay gets pissed off. And he's like, f*** this.
And he not only leaves and starts his own practice, but he sues the old plastic surgery institute for putting his career and his reputation in jeopardy. And he sues them for like $15,000. But in this lawsuit representing the other side is this lawyer, Steven. And Steven, he's a nice guy and he's apparently a good attorney.
But as this lawsuit progresses, Dr. Tampa Bay starts to hate Steven, like really hate him. Apparently they're constantly getting into it. Like at one meeting, they're allegedly arguing with each other. And then Dr. Tampa Bay confronts Steven in the law firm bathroom and calls him a scumbag. And as time passes, Dr. Tampa Bay gets more and more upset over all of this.
Like, how could his old company mess him over like this? He used to have such a good reputation and bad reviews online could destroy his career. And also, screw that lawyer Steven they hired. And at some point, Dr. Tampa Bay has had enough. And he allegedly comes up with this insane plan to get rid of this lawyer Steven for good.
First, he goes and he buys a pickup truck with cash, and he gets a license plate device that allows you to change the plate numbers with the touch of a button. And he also doesn't register the truck. Then he gathers a bunch of supplies, a cart, a blanket, trash bags, and most importantly, a syringe containing a paralyzing drug.
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Chapter 4: What was Dr. Tampa Bay's plan against lawyer Steven?
And then about a week before he's scheduled to do a virtual hearing with Stephen, he drives over to Stephen's law firm. And then he goes inside and he hides inside a utility closet there and he waits. And supposedly he's waiting for Stephen to walk by on his way to the restroom and he's going to follow him into the restroom and unalive him.
Chapter 5: What happened during the first attempt to confront Steven?
But while he's hiding there, boom, someone opens the utility closet door and sees him. And Dr. Tampa Bay says some bullshit like, uh, I was just fixing a power outage. And then he leaves. And the employee reports it to the police. But unfortunately, nothing comes of it. And no one recognizes that it's Dr. Tampa Bay. Oh, but Dr. Tampa Bay's not done. He's going to try again.
Chapter 6: How did the final confrontation with Steven unfold?
On the day his virtual hearing with Stephen is scheduled, Dr. Tampa Bay does the same thing. He drives over to Stephen's law firm, he hides in the utility closet again, and he waits for Stephen to walk by. Meanwhile, Stephen's down the hall working in his office and eventually he leaves his desk to go to the restroom. So he walks by that utility closet and Dr. Tampa Bay sees him.
And when Stephen gets into the restroom, Dr. Tampa Bay follows him in. Then, boom, he pulls out a syringe and he stabs Stephen with it. Now this syringe is filled with a paralyzing drug called succinylcholine, which paralyzes your whole body while you're still wide awake. And it only takes about 60 seconds to start working.
So poor Steven, his body becomes completely paralyzed, but he's still very wide awake during this whole thing. And then, and I'm not sure exactly how he does it, but while Steven is paralyzed, Dr. Tampa Bay allegedly unalives him right there in the restroom.
Then Dr. Tampa Bay cleans the whole place up with bleach and next he gets his cart from the back of his truck and he puts Steven's body in it and he throws a blanket over it to hide it. And he pulls the cart with Steven's body in it out the front door of the law firm and he loads it into the back of his pickup truck.
And it's actually amazing that no one at the law firm noticed or heard anything suspicious. Like it seems like that fight in the restroom would have been really loud. But anyway, now at this point, Dr. Tampa Bay and Steven are scheduled to do that virtual hearing via phone. So Dr. Tampa Bay stops what he's doing and he signs into the virtual hearing using his phone.
I guess this is to give himself an alibi like, oh, I couldn't have unalived anyone. I was on the phone in that virtual hearing the whole time. But anyway, Stephen obviously doesn't make it to the virtual hearing because, you know, he's no longer alive. While Dr. Tampa Bay waits on the phone for the hearing to start. But obviously it can't start because Stephen's not there.
So eventually he hangs up and he leaves the law firm parking lot with Stephen's body in the back of his truck. And what he does with Stephen's body after that, we actually don't know because the body is never found. And if you're like, Ray, this brutal murder seems extreme for a lawsuit over 15 grand and a dispute over some bad reviews online, then you'd be right.
I mean, this whole motive is absurd and it still doesn't make sense to me and I studied the hell out of this case. Now, inside the law firm, I guess Stephen's boss notices he didn't make that hearing and that he hasn't been in his office for a couple of hours. So he goes to check the restroom and as soon as he steps in, boom, he's hit with an overwhelming smell of bleach.
Plus, he notices some sprinkles of what looks like blood. So Boss is like, well, this is weird, and he calls the police. Later, police show up and they search the whole building, but no sign of Steven. Then they check the surveillance cameras, still no sign of Steven, no sign that Steven ever even left the building.
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