The night my mother disappeared.

She went out with nothing but the clothes on her back to go meet her girlfriends, to have drinks.

And she was with them all the way up until closing time at the penalty box.

And that was the last time anybody saw her.

There were a couple of claims that it was possible that she was seen at a bar across the street

from the penalty box that night after the penalty box closed a bar called

Sansones, but that was never proven. There was just hearsay about that. Initially, when she first

disappeared, while we were all reeling from the shock of it all, one of the questions that popped

into our mind was, did she just take off? Did she just

get tired of being a single mom and with all the frustration? But we came to the conclusion very

quickly that that was not the case because she just went out that night with nothing but the

clothes on her back. She didn't take her jewelry. She didn't empty her bank account. She didn't

take spare cash that was sitting on her dresser. She didn't pack a bag and bring clothes with her.

On June 4, 1975, Dorothy Garashko went out to have drinks with some girlfriends in Boston,

Massachusetts. Her three sons, ages 21, 14, and 12, were at home

that evening and went to bed that night not thinking anything was amiss. The next morning,

they awoke to find that their mother still hadn't returned. The younger two got themselves

off to school and figured that their mother must have spent the night with a friend, and she would

be back by the time the school day was over. They were shocked to find that their mother still hadn't

returned that evening. The boys weren't sure what to do, so they kept waiting. After days with no

word from their mother, Dorothy's eldest son went to the police station to report her missing.

48 years later, Dorothy's sons are still searching for answers.

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