Dorothy Goroshko-Did some abusive wannabe gangster, commit the perfect crime in 1974?

Boston Confidential Beantown's True Crime Podcast

Barry J. Maguire

Drama, Whitey, Boston, Boston True Crime, True Crime, South Boston, Charlestown, Fiction, Roxbury, Dorchester

4.7 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Send us a text One of New England's most endearing mysteries, but should we classify it that way? Dorothy had a myriad of problems. She was divorced from a loser who couldn't pay support and was attracted to men with a fast lifestyle and little else to offer. In that spirit a relationship with John F. Bolton, a rough and tumble, stumble bum from Boston's West's End. Bolton had just beaten a life sentence for the murder of a two year old step daughter in 1966, he served under a decade in a ple...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Boston Confidential, Bean Towns True Crime Podcast.
0:11.6	Boston is a great city, but there's more to it than the Freedom Trail in Fenway Park.
0:16.8	There's a startling underbelly to the city, and Boston Confidential will take you on a guided tour of the hub of the universe, Boston, Massachusetts.
0:26.3	Hey, everybody, welcome back to Boston Confidential. My name's Barry McGuire, and I'm your host. I'm a 20-year private investigator on the streets of Boston, and I help run a company called Impact Due Diligence Investigations.
0:39.3	If you need anything in terms of investigative services, feel free to contact me at Impact.
0:45.3	If I can't help you personally, I'll certainly direct you to the right person or agency.
0:50.3	All right, guys, let's get to it.
0:52.3	Hey guys, welcome back to Boston Confidential.
0:55.7	Just some housekeeping items as we usually check off at the beginning of each episode.
1:02.0	My absence, everybody's concerned.
1:04.3	I hurt my back, guys.
1:06.9	And damn, it was out of nowhere.
1:09.7	Physical therapy, whole nine yards. Man, that was out of nowhere. Physical therapy, whole nine yards.
1:13.1	Man, that was a tough one.
1:15.1	Better now, though.
1:16.2	Man, much better.
1:17.2	But the physical therapy, highly recommend it.
1:20.8	But definitely have to take better care of myself.
1:23.7	And I suspect you have to take better care of yourself.
1:27.8	You got to put yourself first a little bit,
1:29.9	especially if you're getting a little gray like I am.
1:32.8	You got to prepare for the next decade, you know?
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