No Body, No Jury Day 5, No Breaks Edition: The Landfill Search, Blood Testing and the Digital Trail

A landfill dig, a serology bench, and a phone read back search by search. No body. No jury. Just the record. Day 5 of Tomasz Kosowski's capital trial is the day the State tried to close the distance between a disappearance and a death. No remains have ever been found in the case of attorney Steven Cozzi, the lawyer on the other side of a lawsuit Kosowski himself brought and was weeks from losing. So the State builds it sideways: a waste management driver who emptied a dumpster on a remote road, the crime scene unit that processed it after a dog alerted on it, a multi day dig through a Collier County landfill, presumptive blood testing on a truck tailgate, and then the digital trail a detective pulled out of a seized iPhone. Kosowski, representing himself with no jury in the room to weigh any of it, questions all of them himself. The spine of the day is that phone. Searches for the victim's name, then for his home address. Research into plate flipping devices. And at 3:09 in the morning on March 20, 2023, five days before the arrest, a search for a medication by name, then for its dose, then for how long it lasts. WITNESS & HEARING GUIDE 0:02:23 — the waste management driver — He emptied the dumpster at the center of this case, on a road off US 41 most people never turn down. What he remembers about that pickup opens the day. 0:18:21 — the Collier County crime scene investigator — Called in after a canine alerted on that dumpster. She was asked to process it for one thing in particular, and describes what was actually in it. 0:45:02 — the landfill district manager — The dumpster's load went to his site. He walks the excavation itself, a bucket at a time, garbage spread out along the side to be gone through by hand. 0:54:58 — Hearing: motion to strike the DNA testimony — Kosowski argues the State's analyst read a computer program's interpretation instead of giving his own. The State answers. The ruling comes at 0:57:06. 0:58:34 — the forensic serologist — Presumptive blood testing across the truck tailgate, the garage bays and a bathroom drain. She also concedes what was never tested, and why one sample was too small to try. 1:16:56 — the lead detective — The digital case, built slide by slide: the search history, the canvass for a gray truck carrying a covered cart, the overnight warrant, and a gap of roughly two hours in the location data. 2:16:53 — the 3:09 a.m. searches — The detective reads the history out in order, timestamp by timestamp, and lets the sequence sit there. 3:22:15 — Kosowski cross examines the detective — He takes the State's own digital forensics witness through what "device locked" can and cannot establish about where a person actually was. 3:29:30 — the anesthesiologist — The last witness of the day explains the medication itself: what it is normally used for, and what it does to a patient who is left unable to respond. --- COMPLETE CASE COVERAGE justiceisaprocess.com SUBSCRIBE for daily trial coverage and hit the notification bell so you never miss testimony. JOIN to unlock the Case Notebook powered by NotebookLM, where you can chat with the evidence, ask questions about the testimony, and go deeper than any comment section allows. CASE BACKGROUND REPORT: https://justiceisaprocess.com/fl-v-ko... Complete case overview including the charges, the timeline, the key players, and the legal questions this trial raises. State of Florida v. Tomasz Kosowski. Pinellas County Circuit Court in Clearwater, Judge Joseph Bulone presiding. Kosowski faces one count of first-degree murder in the death of Steven Cozzi, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty even though no body has ever been found. Kosowski has waived his right to a jury for both the guilt and penalty phases, so Judge Bulone alone will decide the case, and he is representing himself pro se. Tomasz Kosowski is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. LATEST ARTICLE: https://justiceisaprocess.com/desk-20... PLAYLISTS AND RESOURCES Website: https://justiceisaprocess.com/coverag... Full Trial Live Broadcasts:    • Florida v. Tomasz Kosowski: Full Trial Liv...   No Breaks Edition:    • Florida v. Tomasz Kosowski: No Breaks Edition   Trial Analysis Podcast:    • Florida v. Tomasz Kosowski: Case Story Tri...   Key Moments and Testimony:    • Florida v. Tomasz Kosowski: Key Moments & ...   Subscribe for Daily Coverage:    / @justiceisaprocess   FAIR USE AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE This content is produced under Fair Use (17 U.S.C. 107) for news reporting, criticism, and educational purposes. We provide transformative commentary on public court proceedings, advancing public understanding of the judicial process through timestamps, analysis, and educational context. #JusticeIsAProcess #TomaszKosowski #StevenCozzi