Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - Is This Plastic Surgeon Evil? - The Dr. Tomasz Kosowski story

Episode Date: January 31, 2025

Plastic surgeon Dr. Tomasz Kosowski aka Dr. TampaBay is accused of murdering a lawyer Steven Cozzi

Instagram teen accounts have automatic protections for what teens see and who can contact them, plus time management tools. And Instagram will continue adding built-in safety features to help create age-appropriate experiences. Learn more about teen accounts and Instagram's ongoing work to protect teens online at Instagram.com slash teen accounts. On December 12, Disney Plus invites you to go behind the scenes with Taylor Swift in an exclusive six episode doccus series. I wanted to give something to the fans that they didn't expect. The only thing left is to close the book.

The End of an Era. And don't miss Taylor Swift, the era's tour, the final show, featuring for the first time the tortured poets department. Streaming December 12th, only on Disney Plus. So this doctor is about to unalive someone over some negative online reviews. Allegedly. Now, the doctor is about to unalive someone. 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. 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 a number another and another and another and it happens again and again and he keeps getting more bad 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, fuck 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, so it's not really a huge lawsuit. But in this lawsuit representing the other side is this lawyer, Stephen. And Stephen, he's a nice guy and he's apparently a good attorney. But as this lawsuit progresses, Dr. Tampa Bay starts to hate Stephen, 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 Stephen 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, Stephen 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 Stephen 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. 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. 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 is not done. He's going to try again. 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. And then, boom, he pulls out a syringe and he stabs Stephen with it. Now this syringe is filled with a paralyzing drug called succinocholine, which paralyzes your whole body while you're still wide awake. And it only takes about 60 seconds to start working. So poor Stephen, his body becomes completely paralyzed. But he's still very very, wide awake during this whole thing. And then, and I'm not sure exactly how he does it, but while Stephen 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 Stephen 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, uh, 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 Steven'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. 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 Stephen. Then they checked the surveillance cameras, still, no sign of Stephen, no sign that Stephen ever even left the building. The only thing they really find is footage of some strange person leaving the place with a cart full of something that looks like it could be a body, but who knows. And they do see the strange person drive away in his truck. Plus, they find one lone fingerprint on the restroom. door. And as police investigate further, they're told about some of the past arguments that Stephen and Dr. Tampa Bay had. And they're told that a few weeks before, some strange guy was seen hiding in the utility closet. And police, they start piecing all of this evidence together,

and suddenly they have a suspect, Dr. Tampa Bay. And so, bam, they get a warrant, and they go and search his house. And there, they find the truck seen in the security footage parked in his garage. Plus, there's blood in the truck bed. Not to mention that one lone fingerprint they found on the restroom door, it just happens to be Dr. Tampa Bay's. And later, they search his other car and they find a lot of stuff, including that paralyzing drug that was used on Stephen. And so, bam, they arrest Dr. Tampa Bay. Here's his mugshot. And they throw him in jail and they charge him with First-degree murder. Now, just to be clear, this story is told from the prosecution's perspective, so it's all alleged. Dr. Tampa Bay, he's in jail, but he hasn't been to trial yet, so he hasn't

actually been found guilty. But this will be an interesting trial because the circumstantial evidence against Dr. Tampa Bay, it's not looking good for him. But at the same time, they never found Stephen's body. And it's hard to convict someone for murder when there is no body. But the trial, it's actually later in 2025 and we'll see how it turns out