Date: September 13th, 2026 11:47 AM
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Jacob Pillsbury, another attorney, represented one of the defendants. In pretrial testimony in the murder case, he described a January 2023 deposition in which tensions reached afever pitch.
Kosowski wanted to question Tricia Mason, a Laufer employee. The testimony happened at Cozzi's law office.
When the doctor came in, his demeanor was friendly, Pillsbury later testified. Kosowski asked the witness about her family. Then, when the deposition started, his tone became aggressive, Pillsbury said.
His inquiries were "confusing" and "a mess," the lawyer said. Over Pillsbury's frequent objections, Kosowski relentlessly questioned Mason on subjects about which she knew little.
"I mean, he spent three hours beating up this lady who had very little information to give him," Pillsbury said. "And re-asking the same questions he asked of every witness. And asking the same questions over and over and over."
During a break, Cozzi went to the men's room. Kosowski followed.
The doctor confronted the attorney. He called him a "scumbag," according to court testimony. He said something to the effect of "I'm going to win," or "I'm going to take you down."
Cozzi showed up for work the morning of March 21, 2023. He had a telephonic court hearing scheduled with a judge in Kosowski's lawsuit at 10:30 a.m. that day.
Kosowski called in. Cozzi did not.
Minutes earlier, surveillance video showed a Toyota Tundra pulling into the parking lot outside the Blanchard law office. Kosowski had bought the truck the previous December for $26,000 in cash. He had never registered it, according to court records. It bore an expired New Jersey license plate registered to a car whose owner was dead.
A person was seen in the video dragging a cart into the building. The same figure later emerged, towing a large object draped in a blanket, back to the truck.
Investigators later assembled a digital evidence trailthat placed Kosowski's phone at the law office at the time Cozzi disappeared. The lawyer's DNA was found in the back of his truck.
Detectives traced Kosowski's phone signal south to Miami. Along the way, the signal registered near the intersection of U.S. 41 and Loop Road east of Naples.
Dogs trained to detect the smell of human remains alerted to a dumpster at that stop. A garbage truck had emptied the dumpster days earlier. The driver remembered a "vile" smell, court records state.
Cozzi's body was never found.
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