Replay: Dorothy Goroshko Part 2 - Mary Jane
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This episode first aired on August 14, 2023. In Part 1 of Dorothy Goroshko’s story, you heard about her life from her sons, John and Rick. Their childhood was difficult even before Dorothy disappeared and grew even more complicated afterward. Despite Dorothy’s faults, Rick is determined to find her, and John believes he deserves answers. They lost their mother at a critical time in their lives and were left to wonder whether she had chosen to abandon them or if something tragic had happened. Neither possibility brought any comfort. After she went missing, the boys also had to take on adult responsibilities, working to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.
On June 4, 1975, Dorothy left home to meet friends for drinks at The Penalty Box in Boston, Massachusetts. Her group of friends frequently spent time at that bar near North Station. They recalled that Dorothy stayed with them throughout the evening and remained until closing. They said their goodbyes, and no one knew where she went next. There were rumors of after-hours clubs in the area, but no one could confirm whether she had been at any of them that night. Could Dorothy have headed home and been involved in an accident? Could she have gone home with someone she met? Or was she planning to meet someone afterward? In recent years, one person has come forward claiming to have seen Dorothy late that night.
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| 0:00.0 | They were out drinking. |
| 0:14.0 | And it was after a long night of drinking. |
| 0:18.7 | They drove from North Station, from the North End, where she was last seen at the penalty box. |
| 0:23.7 | They drove from Boston to Brighton, where we lived, got into a big fight, and he decides to walk home. |
| 0:32.4 | This is such a wild story. |
| 0:34.6 | He decides to walk home from Brighton to Rosendale, which is probably a seven |
| 0:39.9 | mile distance. So you're going to walk home seven miles after a night of drinking and hanging |
| 0:46.2 | out at three in the morning or whatever it is. Allegedly, he stated that the entire time |
| 0:52.4 | that he was walking home, she was following him in her car, |
| 0:58.3 | trying to hit him. And he was jumping on the sidewalks and having to run across streets and |
| 1:03.9 | intersections and all these things. And about five miles later, he allegedly claimed the only |
| 1:09.9 | way he escaped was climbing the fence of the |
| 1:12.7 | Aberietam, which is like a park in Boston. |
| 1:17.6 | On June 4, 1975, Dorothy Garashko left home to go out for drinks with her friends at the |
| 1:24.8 | penalty box in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| 1:28.5 | This was not out of the ordinary for Dorothy. Her group of friends were known to frequent that bar in North Station. Dorothy's |
| 1:34.5 | friends recalled that she was with them that evening, and they stayed until closing. They said their |
| 1:39.5 | goodbyes, and no one is certain where Dorothy headed next. There were rumors about a couple of after-hours clubs in the area, |
| 1:46.7 | but no one could confirm that she had been at any of those establishments that night. |
| 1:51.0 | Could Dorothy have headed home and gotten into an accident? |
| 1:54.0 | Could she have gone home with someone she met that evening? |
| 1:56.7 | Or could she have gone to meet someone afterwards? |
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