\n\t\tMissing Largo lawyer murder: Steven Cozzi\u2019s husband talks about love and evil\t<\/a><\/p>\n
Kosowski waived his right to a jury trial and dismissed his public defender, instead choosing to represent himself in the case. He faces the death penalty, if convicted. <\/p>\n
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Kosowski in court (Pool)![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kosowski-mask.jpg\")
(Courtesy of Largo Police Department)![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Tomasz-Kosowski-MUG.jpg\")
(Pinellas County Jail)<\/p>\n
When the trial began, he did not give an opening statement, and has only cross-examined two of the state\u2019s witnesses so far: a DNA analyst and blood-splatter expert. <\/p>\n
The doctor is accused of sneaking into Cozzi\u2019s law office and attacking him in the bathroom, which investigators said had several blood stains and smelled heavily of bleach. Cozzi\u2019s belongings were left seemingly untouched in his office.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said blood and both men\u2019s DNA were found in the office bathroom, two of Kosowski\u2019s vehicles, and his garage. <\/p>\n
\t Cellphone positioning data presented by the state last week placed Kosowski in the area of the law office at the time of Cozzi\u2019s disappearance and then at his home in Tarpon Springs. Kosowski is accused of driving Cozzi\u2019s body to rural Collier County and placing his remains in a dumpster.<\/p>\n The contents of the dumpster were taken to a landfill and Cozzi\u2019s body was never found.<\/p>\n You can watch the livestream here, on the WFLA News mobile app<\/a>, or through WFLA Now on our TV\u00a0streaming app<\/a>\u00a0on Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, and Samsung Smart TVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The trial of a former Pinellas County plastic surgeon accused of murdering a lawyer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-407538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\tExclusive: Lawyer who discovered crime scene in Steven Cozzi\u2019s murder speaks out\t<\/a><\/p>\n