Former American Idol contestant on trial. Plastic surgeon allegedly murders lawyer. Plus, AI scams.

10:25Dateline NBC:And we have another quick update on this story. the day after we taped our conversation with Justin, the woman that prosecutors say Caleb was having an affair with took the stand. We will catch you up on all the details from her testimony next week. Coming up, three years after an attorney went missing from his office in the middle of the workday, a Florida plastic surgeon is on trial for his murder. And he's representing himself.

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12:24Dateline NBC:On March 21st, 2023, Florida attorney Stephen Cozy walked into his law office and never came back out. When his co-workers went looking for him, they found blood in the bathroom, but no sign of Stephen. Days later, police arrested plastic surgeon Tomas Kosowski, a man Cozy had been battling in a contentious civil lawsuit. Prosecutors charged him with Stephen Cozy's murder. They allege Kozowski killed him inside the law office, wheeled his body out in a cart, and eventually got rid of it in a remote dumpster. However, Cozy's body has never been found. Kozowski has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he faces the death penalty.

13:05Dateline NBC:We are in the second week of his trial, and there's been a twist in this trial. Kozowski is representing himself.

13:12Tomasz Kosowski:So none of the videos makes a positive idea of me.

13:15Dateline NBC:Tampa Bay Times reporter Alexa Koltoff has been following the trial. Welcome to the podcast, Alexa.

13:21Steven Cozzi:Thank you.

13:21Dateline NBC:So, Alexa, first off, tell us about the victim in this case, Stephen Cozy.

13:25Steven Cozzi:Right. Stephen Cozy was 41. He was an attorney in Largo, Florida. He'd been married to his husband, Michael, for about three years. And his co-workers described someone who really loved being a lawyer.

13:37Dateline NBC:So how did Tomas Kosowski come into Stephen's life?

13:41Steven Cozzi:Through a lawsuit. So Kosowski was an Ivy League educated plastic surgeon who sued his former employer and several related businesses in 2019. After a couple years of the lawsuit not having much progress, Kosowski decided to represent himself. And in 2022, Stephen was representing most of the people he was suing.

14:02Dateline NBC:Okay. Walk us through, Alexa, March 21st. What was Stephen doing that day?

14:06Steven Cozzi:According to his husband, Michael, it started like a completely normal morning. Stephen brought him coffee in bed, kissed him goodbye. Then he went to work. A few hours later, Michael said someone from Stephen's office reached out to him and asked if he'd taken Stephen to lunch because he was missing. Michael rushed to the office. Stephen's car was still there, locked in the parking lot. His phone, wallet, and keys were still on his office desk. And his computer was open in the middle of an email he had been typing. But he was gone. Stephen's co-workers suspected something was wrong? They did.

14:39Steven Cozzi:Stephen's boss, Jake Blanchard, went looking for him. When Jake went into the men's room, he smelled a strong odor of bleach and chemicals. He saw blood stains on the toilet seat, on the walls, and he called 911. It's horrible.

14:53Dateline NBC:How quickly, Alexa, did investigators focus on Kosowski?

14:57Steven Cozzi:Pretty much right away. Investigators started pulling surveillance videos, cell phone records, which allegedly put him at the scene of Stephen's disappearance, and then later stopping at a remote dumpster. And then, as we know, days after Stephen disappeared, he was arrested in Tarpon Springs, where he lives.

15:14Dateline NBC:That brings us to the trial, which we should note is happening in front of a judge, not a jury. So it's a bench trial. What did prosecutors lay out in their opening statement, Alexa?

15:23Steven Cozzi:They argued that this wasn't some sudden confrontation, that Kosowski had been plotting the murder for quite a while. He believed that the lawsuit and Stevens' arguments to throw it out had cost him money and damaged his professional reputation. And friends and family testified that in January 2023, two months before Stevens' disappearance, Kaszewski confronted him in the same bathroom prosecutors say he was later murdered in and called him a scumbag. His husband, Michael, even suggested he start bringing pepper spray to work or hiring security.

15:56Dateline NBC:— Prosecutors laid out a series of events, things that Kozowski did, which they say added up to planning the murder.

16:04Steven Cozzi:— Yes. They say Kozowski researched Stephen, his home, and his husband by Googling their names, wedding, their address, their property appraisal. The morning before Stephen disappeared, investigators say Kozowski searched online for a paralytic drug and how long its effects last. Stephen's body has never been recovered, so his manner of death is unknown. But prosecutors say as part of their theory that he was given that drug in the bathroom before Kisowski murdered him. And about a week before Stephen disappeared, a woman testified that she found a man wearing a surgical mask hiding in a utility closet in the shared building of the law firm.

16:43Steven Cozzi:She identified that man in court as Kosowski because she actually followed him out of the office, hid behind a bush, and watched him get into a gray Toyota Tundra, the same truck which prosecutors say is the one Kosowski drove the morning of Stephen's disappearance.

16:59Dateline NBC:This is all very, very disturbing. Alexa, prosecutors walked the judge through what they believe actually happened that morning?

17:09Steven Cozzi:Right. And a big part of their timeline is that gray Toyota Tundra pickup truck. On the morning of March 21st, they say that surveillance video shows it arriving at Stephen's law office at about 830. A man is seen carrying a box and walking into the building. Stephen arrives a few minutes later, and at 1022 a.m., surveillance video shows the same man leaving the building, pulling what appears to be a heavy wagon covered in red material. Cameras then captured the tundra leaving the parking lot with the covered wagon in the bed of the truck. And when police later searched Kosowski's home, they found the truck inside his garage.

17:46Dateline NBC:Did the tundra turn up anything when investigators tested it?

17:50Steven Cozzi:It did. Investigators found what appeared to be blood inside the truck on the walls of it. They also found blood on the floor of Kosowski's garage. DNA testing linked Steven to that blood. And so you talked about this dumpster.

18:05Dateline NBC:They believe that he dumped Stephen's body there, but they weren't able to find the body. So what happened?

18:13Steven Cozzi:So this is where, you know, it gets speculative. But Kostowski's cell phone shows that he was driving down towards Miami that night. His red Toyota Corolla stopped off a remote dirt road and he stops there for about a minute, minute and a half before continuing on. So investigators had law enforcement officers go to the landfill where that dumpster is dumped in Collier County, Florida. They actually did a three-day search with a lot of law enforcement officers. Remains were never found, but the garbage truck driver who picked up the load from the dumpster that day actually testified in court. And he said it was unlike anything he had ever smelt coming from the load.

19:04Dateline NBC:Oh, so awful. Alexa, with this being a no-body homicide, how are prosecutors handling that?

19:10Steven Cozzi:Right. It is very challenging. Prosecutors have presented quite a bit of forensic evidence from the bathroom. A blood spatter expert testified that there was, quote, a significant bloodletting event that took place there. And in fact, the state's last witness before they arrested their case on Tuesday afternoon was a District 6 medical examiner who testified that it's his opinion that Stephen is dead based on the totality of the evidence.

19:39Dateline NBC:And investigators say they found what they call a murder kit, Alexa?

19:43Steven Cozzi:Yes. So investigators say they found a black bag in the passenger seat floor of Kosowski's red Toyota Corolla. There were masks, syringes, a stun gun, among other items. There were also ballistic vests that were just found in his car. And a DNA analyst testified that a blood spot on one of them provided very strong support for Steven being the source of that blood. And that bag is also where investigators found the paralytic prosecutors had talked about. All right.

20:13Dateline NBC:The prosecution spent six days presenting its evidence. Kostowski, as we mentioned, decided to represent himself. So he's actually sitting at the defense table by himself. Alexa, how did this all come about?

20:30Steven Cozzi:Yes, yes, very peculiar indeed. And he even showed up every day voluntarily in his orange jail clothes. He had several attorneys during this criminal case up until about a month before trial when he asked the judge to represent himself.

20:46Dateline NBC:What kinds of questions did he ask the prosecution witnesses on cross-examination? How did he do?

20:52Steven Cozzi:For the first few days, not a lot. He stayed mostly quiet. He was making some objections, but repeatedly declined to cross-examine witnesses. Then on Thursday, that changed. An FBI agent who analyzed his cell phone data was on the stand, and for the first time, Kosowski started cross-examining the state's witnesses.

21:12Tomasz Kosowski:Yes, Mr. Corian, how much time was the device stopped at this dumpster? It's hard to say, but it's consistent with it being in the area for maybe a minute or so. A minute? Yes, sir. Okay. So somebody stopped at that dumpster for one minute? The records are consistent with that happening. Yes, sir. Thank you. No further questions.

21:33Dateline NBC:What point was Kisalski trying to make?

21:36Steven Cozzi:He was basically asking what the roughly one minute stop near the dumpster actually proved. There's no body. There's no video of him killing Cozy. So he was saying, how does the one-minute stop show that he did anything?

21:49Dateline NBC:Kosowski also went head-to-head with the lead detective. What happened there, Alexa?

21:54Steven Cozzi:He did. On Tuesday, he challenged the lead detective on the security cam video prosecutors say shows Kosowski at the scene of the alleged murder.

22:03Tomasz Kosowski:Was there ever a positive ID made of me in those videos? From the surveillance footage? Yes. No.

22:09Steven Cozzi:Then Kisowski really drilled down into how the prosecution thought that he got Stephen's body into the truck. Stephen weighed roughly 190, 195 pounds. His husband testified and Kisowski was questioning how he could have loaded Stephen's body into a cart and lifted him into the back of a pickup truck.

22:29Dateline NBC:Kisowski tries to do a show and tell in the courtroom with the detective as his assistant. Correct.

22:37Tomasz Kosowski:Would you be willing to help in a demonstration? I could.

22:41Steven Cozzi:He asked the detective to try to lift the cart and get a 190-pound person from the gallery to volunteer to approximate loading it onto the truck. The prosecution objected, and the judge sustained the objection and told Kosowski he'd made his point. But Kosowski kept pushing.

22:59Tomasz Kosowski:Your Honor, their theory is that I lifted those two weights together and loaded it onto the back of the truck. He's telling you that I committed murder, and he's trying to kill me for it.

23:12Dateline NBC:The judge still wouldn't allow the demonstration. When it was Kisowski's turn, the defense's turn, he did not call any witnesses, and he declined to testify. Where do things go from here, Alexa?

23:24Steven Cozzi:So we will hear closing arguments Wednesday morning from prosecutors and from Kisowski himself before the judge returns to his chambers to deliberate. Such a bizarre case.

23:36Dateline NBC:Alexa, thank you for bringing us all of this.

23:39Steven Cozzi:Thank you for having me.

23:42Dateline NBC:After we taped our conversation, Alexa headed back into court and things moved very quickly. She called us back to tell us what happened next. Hey, Alexa.

23:51Steven Cozzi:Hi. Yeah, so the state and Kisowski gave their closing arguments.

23:55Tomasz Kosowski:Overwhelming weight of the evidence and the totality of the analysis of this case lead to only one conclusion. And that's on March 21st of 2023. This man murdered Stephen Cozzi.

24:09Steven Cozzi:Kosowski reinforced his belief that the prosecution's theory just didn't add up.

24:14Tomasz Kosowski:The state would have you believe that everything is very clear-cut, cut and dry in this case. If the state's theory of the murder is correct, you have to find Stephen Cozzi's body in that landfill. But they didn't.

24:29Steven Cozzi:After he finished his argument, the judge said he needed 15 minutes to come back with his verdict. The court, as a trier of fact, having considered testimony and evidence presented at trial,

24:40Dateline NBC:enters the following verdict. The defendant is guilty of murder in the first degree as charged. Signed by Honorable Judge Joseph A. Stallone, Circuit Judge. All right. Thank you.

24:52Steven Cozzi:Kosowski was found guilty of first degree murder. Stephen's husband, Michael, spoke afterwards during the penalty phase in which prosecutors asked the judge to impose a death sentence. There is a saying, to the world you may be one person,

25:07Tomasz Kosowski:but to one person you may be the world. Stephen was that person to me. I cannot describe the horror this has brought me and all of Steve's loved ones. It brings me more anger than I can put in the words.

25:22Dateline NBC:What happens now, Alexa? So when will we know whether Kosowski will be sentenced to death or life in prison?

25:29Steven Cozzi:Well, the judge still has more to consider before making that decision. He found the state had proven two of the three aggravating factors it needs for the death penalty, that the murder was committed for financial gain and that it was cold, calculated and premeditated. But he said that without a body, it's difficult to prove that it was committed in a particularly heinous manner. He'll wait until after a hearing next month to decide between death or life in prison.

25:53Dateline NBC:Okay, Alexa, thank you for this major update. We appreciate you coming back on the podcast. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Up next, it's time for Dateline Roundup, updates in the Nolan Wells investigation, and a game-changing ruling ahead of trial in the case of murdered UNC student Faith Hedgepeth. Plus, AI sob stories. Vicky Nguyen tells us how to protect our wallets and our hearts.

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27:57Dateline NBC:Welcome back. Joining me for this week's Roundup is Dateline producer Sue Simpson. Sue, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. So, Sue, up first, we have a decision out of Mississippi in the case of Nolan Wells. He was the Black teenager who never came home from a boat trip with his friends over the Fourth of July weekend. His body was found a few days later on Horn Island, where they'd gone to party. Sue, this case grabbed national attention earlier this summer when theories swirled that his death could be racially motivated. That's right, Andrea. After Wells' body was found, the family hired well-known civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who questioned whether his race might have had something to do with his mysterious death.

28:40Dateline NBC:The state promised a thorough investigation into what happened to Nolan. But until this week, we hadn't heard much. Finally, on Monday night, 11 weeks after Nolan's death, the Jackson County District Attorney posted a video statement with the findings of the grand jury investigation. Let's take a listen to some of that.

28:59Caleb Flynn:After a thorough and exhaustive investigation, your grand jury met last week concerning the death investigation of Nolan Wells and unanimously returned a no-true bill.

29:10Dateline NBC:Okay, so what does that mean, a no-true bill? So the members of the grand jury concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove that anyone committed a crime connected to Nolan's death. Sue, Nolan's parents and Ben Crump commissioned an independent autopsy several months back, which found Nolan's cause of death to be undetermined and flagged two bruises on the back of his head. We've been waiting to see if the state would release the medical examiner's autopsy. They did not do that this week. But the grand jury had access to that independent autopsy and the medical examiner's findings. So based on what they learned, what do they believe, Sue, happened to Nolan?

29:52Dateline NBC:In their report, jurors noted there was an injury on the back of Nolan's head, but they said it was not fatal and concluded that he'd not been in any physical altercation or argument of any kind. In their words, the position of, the condition of, the time of discovery, and the location of Mr. Wells' body was consistent with drowning. But that wasn't something jurors could say for sure. So, Sue, we still don't know for sure exactly how Nolan died. How did Nolan's family respond to all of this? Well, at a press conference on Tuesday, Ben Crump pointed out that no one knows how Nolan died yet, including the state.

30:32Dateline NBC:He said that the grand jury's report leaves them with more questions than answers.

30:38Tomasz Kosowski:Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McElrath will have you accept that Nolan Wells' death can be summarized in three words. We'll never know. But Nolan's family offers three other words. We will never stop. We'll never stop until we get to the truth.

31:10Dateline NBC:Nolan's parents both spoke, too. Here's a clip of his mother. Nolan is loved. He is cherished. He is honored. And he did not deserve to have his life taken away so suddenly. Okay, heartbreaking, to be sure, Sue. We'll see if anything more develops in this case. Next up, there was a pretrial hearing in North Carolina on Monday for the man accused of murdering UNC student Faith Hedgepeth in her off-campus apartment back in 2012. Miguel Salguero Olivares was charged nearly 10 years after the crime in 2021. Prosecutors allege his DNA links him to the crime scene. He has pleaded not guilty. Sue, both sides were in court on Monday arguing one last motion, and it was an important one.

32:00Dateline NBC:Yeah, it was. This motion was a request from the state to block any evidence, suggesting that someone other than Miguel was responsible for Faith's death. Did the defense indicate at all who they are trying to point the finger at? They did, Andrea. Faith's roommate at the time of the murder, a woman named Carina Rosario, who was one of the people to find Faith's body. and they presented over three hours of evidence that they say shows she should be considered an alternate suspect. We should say Carina Rosario has never been charged in connection to this case. So, Sue, what arguments did the defense make?

32:36Dateline NBC:Well, they played interviews of Rosario talking with investigators. And, you know, this was the first time her voice has been heard in court. Here's a clip of the hearings live streamed by CBS 17.

32:47Caleb Flynn:Yeah, I was drunk, but I'm not stupid.

32:50Dateline NBC:The defense played several clips where Rosario repeated the same phrase.

32:54Tomasz Kosowski:Like I said, I'm not stupid.

32:56Dateline NBC:They were trying to suggest that this phrase, I'm not stupid, was something Rosario said often. The defense then brought up a cryptic note written on the back of a white fast food takeout bag that was found next to Faith's body. It said, I'm not stupid, jealous. Trying to tie Rosario, of course, Andrea, to that threatening note. Did they have anything else, Sue, that could tie Rosario to the crime? Well, they argued that Rosario's statements to police were inconsistent and that a red smudge seen on her hand the night of Faith's murder wasn't properly tested for blood by investigators. The prosecution argued that the evidence the defense presented did not meet the legal standard to suggest that someone else committed the crime.

33:42Dateline NBC:Sue, what did the judge decide? Well, the judge agreed with the state. Sue, is Faith's roommate expected to testify? She is. And it's going to be interesting to see how the defense handles her on cross. The trial is expected to start next week, and you know we'll be watching. Okay. Thank you, Sue, for all these updates. Thanks, Andrea. Talk soon. It's not uncommon to be scrolling on your social media feed and come across videos like these.

34:12Caleb Flynn:Someone please stay nine seconds to tell my son his crocheted handbags are not ugly.

34:17Tomasz Kosowski:I don't normally do this, but please, God, don't scroll. Just give me a second. Please, please don't scroll.

34:23Dateline NBC:Sob stories are all over the Internet. It's nothing new. But what happens when the people in the stories aren't even real? According to the reporting of my next guest, NBC News chief consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen, scammers are now creating fake AI tearjerkers on social media to take advantage of consumers. Hey, Vicki. Hey, Andrea. Always great to be with you. Thanks for coming on. Vicki, we've talked on the podcast before, warning people to be on the lookout for scammers using generative AI. AI is such a powerful tool.

34:56Caleb Flynn:It really is. And it's so effective for scammers who are now using it to really turbocharge the types of scams that they're able to put out there all over the internet, and especially on social media because they can create fake images, also fake videos, right? The FBI has issued multiple alerts about this. In their 2025 Internet Crime Report, they said Americans lost$893 million in AI-related scams just last year. Unbelievable.

35:26Dateline NBC:Vicki, you did some reporting into a troubling scam that uses something called sadness bait.

35:31Caleb Flynn:What is this all about? What these fraudsters are doing is they're using artificial intelligence to create a video that pulls on your heartstrings, that tries to get into your wallet for donations for charities, for GoFundMe accounts. These AI tools make it look like real people are suffering, real people are crying, real people are asking you for help. It's infuriating.

35:57Dateline NBC:Vicki, that brings us to the story about the boys selling crocheted handbags. Tell us more about what you learned.

36:03Caleb Flynn:This one really hit close to home for us because it happened to involve one of our younger producers at NBC News Daily. Her mom was on Facebook and she saw a page under the handle at Jaden Knott's. And on this account, what appeared to be a young man, Jaden, began posting videos last April promoting what looked like a small business that he was running. He was selling these hand crocheted bags. The video really appealed to her because he was getting allegedly bullied for being a black boy who was doing crochet. The boy on the page was saying, I'm being bullied for pursuing my passion. It would be great if you all would support me.

36:48Tomasz Kosowski:Everyone is making fun of me for making these bags. I spent hours every day crocheting them, but all I get is backlash. So if you are still watching, please let me know should I keep going.

36:56Caleb Flynn:And so people were buying his bags, thinking that they were helping a young man who was being bullied.

37:03Dateline NBC:These videos have garnered over 9 million views, which is incredible. It shows you how people have big hearts, right, which is the nice side of this. But then the scam side of this is that people were not getting the bags that they were paying for.

37:17Caleb Flynn:Yeah, in some cases, people said nothing ever arrived. In other cases, people, after waiting weeks and weeks, would get a bag that looked nothing like what was in the video that was allegedly posted by Jaden.

37:29Dateline NBC:So these videos were not legit?

37:32Caleb Flynn:They were not. We showed the page and the Jaden videos to the cybersecurity experts over at Brand Shield. They said it had the hallmarks of an AI-created persona.

37:46Dateline NBC:And it's also the location, right? It says that he's located in Washington, D.C., but the page manager is nowhere near Washington, D.C.?

37:55Caleb Flynn:It turns out that this page was based outside of the country. When we reached out to the administrators of the page, we never heard back. There was an impersonation scam using a compilation of videos of different people. And if you looked very carefully, sometimes the mouth of the lip sync would look a little off. But if you're looking at this on a small screen on your phone, very, very difficult to detect. But in this case, Jaden looked real. Totally. And we ended up actually talking to a young creator online who says that some of her videos were used by this scam account. And she showed us clips side by side of things that she truly does crochet, things that she truly did post.

38:36Caleb Flynn:And they were ripped off, clipped, and put into these Jaden videos. A lot of these AI tools are enabling the scammers to mix what's real with what's fake. And that's what makes the lie more powerful. But the videos were intense, right? They would show this boy being yelled at by other kids, of eggs being thrown at him.

38:55Tomasz Kosowski:Do you really think people are going to buy these ugly crochet bags for$40?

39:00Caleb Flynn:And then that is where actually, you know, some of the victims in the comments started to say, this is odd, this doesn't feel real. How is there always a camera on you when people are coming up and bullying you? So there were some comments that indicated people were suspicious.

39:14Dateline NBC:And how prevalent are these sob story scams?

39:18Caleb Flynn:This is what's so crazy, Andrea. I don't think anyone is even able to quantify the number of scams and accounts that are popping up because it's so easy for them to be made. And it's like a game of whack-a-mole. You get some taken down, new ones crop up.

39:32Dateline NBC:What makes it harder to tell, too, are some of the comments that people post, which end up being bots.

39:39Caleb Flynn:Yeah, exactly. scammers know that the more people they reach, the more chances they get of stealing money. And so they use bots to like posts. They try to get them to make positive comments or leave positive reviews. The telltale sign is these comments are often very generic. They're very short. And if you go and look at the actual profile of who is making the positive comment, they may not have very many followers. So I always say you should read the comments. I would read the negative comments and for all the positive comments to see if it's a real person leaving it.

40:11Dateline NBC:All right, Vicki, so much to navigate out there, right? It's hard. For sure. Thank you so much for bringing us all of this. That's it for this episode of Dateline True Crime Weekly. But don't forget to check out Lester's new podcast, Before and After. You can listen to his interview with actor Jeremy Renner now wherever you get your podcasts.

40:34Tomasz Kosowski:What's it like to die? If you're going to die, you don't want to die alone.

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40:55Tomasz Kosowski:I tell my mom we're at war. Do you understand that that makes it look as if you're complicit?

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