Search for answers: Mystery haunts family of missing mom from Brighton 50 years after she vanished
'It's 50 years yesterday that she disappeared,' her son, Rick, said in a phone interview Thursday. 'Her life was cut short. She never got to live her life and be with her family ... she never got to see her grandkids or great-grandkids.'
Three years ago the Boston Police Department appealed to the public for help and
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'Any piece of information, no matter how small or seemingly insignificant, could make a tremendous difference in the course of this decades long investigation,' Boston police said at the time.
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Today Goroshko's loved ones are still waiting for answers, and her family is offering a $50,000 reward for any information that leads to the discovery of her remains.
'I want to give her a proper burial,' Rick said.
Rick was 14 years old when his mother went missing. His older brother was 20 and his younger brother was 12.
'It was a time full of loss and confusion,' he said. 'Wondering where she is. Is she coming home? Not knowing what happened. It's just a hole in your heart that never heals.'
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Adventures With Purpose, a group of divers who use underwater sonar imaging to locate vehicles in bodies of water, recently searched Jamaica Pond and the Charles River for Goroshko's gold 1970 Ford Maverick, but to no avail.
'They found a lot of vehicles, but unfortunately they did not find my mother's vehicle,' he said.
Hans Hug, who owns Sonar Search & Recovery, a business in Exeter, N.H. that specializes in underwater search and recovery operations
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has also located five vehicles in the Charles River that could potentially be Goroshko's. Hug plans to dive to the vehicles and hopefully identify them.
Rick, 64, who lives in Pennsylvania, holds out hope that her mother's car could contain evidence that could 'hold somebody accountable.'
'We're kind of running out of time to get someone to come forward who knows something,' he said. 'Somebody knows something. Maybe it's time they cleared their conscience, and make things right.'
The Boston Police Department Unsolved Homicide Unit is asking anyone with information that could be helpful to the investigation to contact 617-343-4470 or leave an anonymous tip by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word 'TIP' to CRIME (27463).
Dorothy P. Goroshko hasn't been seen since June 4, 1975.
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