Sons of missing Boston woman offering $50K reward to help bring her home

BOSTON — Dorothy Goroshko, a Boston mother of three, vanished 46 years ago, leaving her sons to raise themselves. Now, decades later, her heartbroken sons are offering a $50,000 reward for information that brings her home.

“It’s been a burden for 46 years, waiting, looking, praying for information,” Dorothy’s son, Rick Goroshko, said. “There’s been a hole in our hearts our entire lives, waiting for those results.”

Dorothy’s case was featured on New England’s Unsolved in February 2020. Dorothy, along with her 1970 Ford Maverick car, disappeared after a night out with girlfriends on June 4, 1975.

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The girlfriends told Boston Police they shared a few drinks with Dorothy at the Penalty Box bar near the old Boston Garden. They said Dorothy was alone.

Yet, when Boston Police interviewed her boyfriend, detectives got a much different story. Dorothy’s boyfriend was a career criminal named John “Jack” Boulton. Boulton spent much of his adult life, up until Dorothy’s disappearance, in and out of prison.

Nine years before Dorothy vanished, John Boulton was convicted of manslaughter for the beating death of his then-girlfriend’s young daughter. The child was discovered buried in Marshfield.

Boulton recently put himself with Dorothy Goroshko on the night of her disappearance. He told detectives he and Dorothy got into a fight at her apartment in Brighton. As he walked away, towards his home in Boston, Boulton said Dorothy followed him for miles in her car - the same car that’s missing - trying to run him over. Boulton claimed he got away by running through the Arnold Arboretum and he never saw Dorothy Goroshko again.

Boulton denied having anything to do with Dorothy’s disappearance. Boulton is now in his 80s and he lives in Florida. When we reached him on the phone, Boulton also denied any involvement in Dorothy’s disappearance.

Rick Goroshko said his sole focus now is on finding his mother.

“As much as we want justice and accountability, most importantly, we want her to be brought home,” Goroshko said. “She deserves better than this and she deserves a proper burial. And if this [reward] can help to get someone to come forward and tell us what they know, then so be it.”

If you have any information on the disappearance of Dorothy Goroshko, you are urged to contact Boston Police.

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