Last week, we shared Part 1 of Dorothy Goroshko's story. You learned about Dorothy's life from her sons, John and Rick. Rick and John's lives were never easy, not before their mother disappeared and not after. Despite Dorothy's faults, Rick wants to find her, and John believes he deserves an answer. They lost their mother at a critical time in their lives. Rick and John were still kids, left to wonder if their mother had simply chosen to abandon them or if something terrible had happened to her. Neither outcome made them feel any better about any of it. The boys also had to work to maintain a roof over their heads and put food on the table.
On June 4, 1975, Dorothy Goroshko left home to meet friends for drinks at The Penalty Box in Boston, MA. Dorothy's group of friends were known to frequent that bar in North Station. Dorothy's friends recalled that she was with them that evening, and they stayed until closing. They said their goodbyes, and no one was sure where Dorothy headed next. There were rumors about after-hours clubs in the area, but no one could confirm that she had been at any of those establishments that night. Could Dorothy have headed home and gotten into an accident? Could she have gone home with someone she met that night? Or could she have gone to meet someone afterward? In recent years, one person has told a story about seeing Dorothy late that night.
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drinking, and it was after a long night of drinking. They drove from north station from the north and wish was lacking. Tell me box pedro from Boston.
To brighten, where we lived got into a big fight and he decides to walk home. This is so such a wild story. He decides to walk home
from Brighton derive deal which is probably a seven mile distant,
you're gonna, walk home seven. My
after a night of drinking and hanging out at green up on or whatever it is
gently. He stated that the entire time that he would
walking home. She
following him in her car trying to hit them and
with japan on the sidewalk and having to run across three ten affections and all these things about five miles later he allegedly quaint. The only way he escaped was climbing. The fence
the arboretum, which is what the park in Boston
on june. Fourth, nineteen. Seventy five dorothy
sk left home to go out for drinks with our friends at the penalty box in Boston Massachusetts. This was
out of the ordinary for dorothy? Her
group of friends were known to frequent that bar in north station dorothy
friends recalled that she was with them that evening and they stayed until closing these other.
goodbyes and no one is certain where Dorothy had a next
there were rumours about a couple of after hours, clubs in the area, but no one
could you confirm that she had been in any of those establishments? That night good during
have headed home and gotten into an accident. Could
have gone home with someone she met that evening or could
Have gone to meet someone afterwards. In recent years, one person has told a story about seeing dorothy late at night, I'm orissa and from wondering this episode. Four hundred and six of the vanished part, two of dorothy garage goes story. Mary Jane
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last week we share part one of dorothy garages story. You learned about her life from her sons, john and wreck
can johns lives were never easy. Now
for their mother disappeared and not after. Despite
of dorothys faults, rick wants to find her and John believes that he deserves an answer
they lost her mother at an important time in their lives. They were
kids. They were,
have to wonder if she had simply chosen to abandon them or something
terrible had happened to her. Neither
come made, them feel better about any of it. They also had to work to maintain a roof over their heads and put food on the table. Their elders,
their anthony open to. You
furniture shop, in an attempt to provide for his brothers. He was now the man of the house and needed to quickly adapt to that role. Rick recalled
after about a year and a half on their own, their grandmother and aunt took john and wreck into their home to help out. By that time
it didn't seem like dorothy was going to return,
producing the series, we wondered. What dorothys, mother and sister may have known her
he mentioned anything to them before she ultimately vanished had they worked with
he's in those early years, did they know
of any leads John told us that the subject of their mother was something that they just didn't speak of. Much though here
regrets about that today and wish
so he had asked them more before they were gone. My aunt and my grandmother since passed. I wish I had spent a little more time, but it was always like a taboo type of a thing. Nobody walked about it in the family. I wish I had spoken a little bit off to my grandmother to my aunt. You can't blame a young person, I mean, but myself and my brother here we are
we're talking about my grandmother's daughter and my sister, I'm sure they went through their own private hell at one time or another. I wish I had. I
talk to them more about what they felt, what they thought, what they
new those kinds of things we end
part one discussing, how no one could put dorothy with John bolton on the night. She vanished people
see dorothy that night, but she was with a girlfriends John. Wasn't there so
reckon John have always suspected this man that they knew to be a heinous abuser to be behind their mothers disappearance amendment
called a monster gangster and beast these
we had no proof they were
his boltons actions in character first hand, and they find it too
call to imagine that someone else could have done this rick has
persistent with the Boston police department for decades they seem to have.
A dead end, because no one could say that they had seen dorothy with John bolton that night, but then
years later, investigators decided detract bolton down. He had said
relocated to florida. They wish,
when Bolton placed himself with dorothy on the night that she vanished. Rick told us more how he put himself with her that night
nobody ever saw him with her that nice. So I suspicion is that
accosted her after she left the by that night at some point
a couple of years ago, sergeant attacked at
the guys I worked very closely with he actually spoke to and Bolton put himself with her the night that she disappeared
claiming that he would out on a furlough. They were out drinking
and there it was after a long night of drinking they drove from north station from the north and wish he was lacking a penalty box. They drove from Boston
to brighten, where we lived, got into a big fight, allegedly broke up according to bolton and he decides to walk home. This is so such a wild story. Can it's bullshit. He decides to walk home from brighton derived, india, which is probably
seven miles distant from brightened, rosalind deal so you're gonna work
home seven, my
after a night of drinking and hanging out at three, the bonnet or whatever it is you gonna break up and then decide to do that.
Allegedly. He stated that the entire
time that he was walking home
She was following him in her car trying to hit him and
was japan on the sidewalks and having to run across streets and affections, and all these things about
five miles later. He allegedly claimed the only way he escaped was climbing
hence the operation which is the like a park in Boston mere robin deal and that he eventually escaped her by climbing a fence.
And running through. The outer edam finishing his way home, which is it is such an a ludicrous story. The only part about, but I can see happening, is that if there is any shred of true,
If any of that story- and sometimes every life has a little bit of truth in It- that she did follow him at some point, but instead of him making a five mile, he accosted her, he knocked out or something, and then that was this and then he took off with her body in the car. That's what I believe is such a bs.
Story because, first of all, you got the cross major, thorough ways to get to walk, to rise in the upper right
and am oberon calm ass? You got a random overrun any street. You wanted to believe
in the middle of its major street,
three main highway when he entered viewed with gold digging he himself with her on june. For the night she disappeared when bob wide followed, backed up with him, he's a reporter when the story was aired, he claimed that that did happen, but that wasn't a knight tat. She disappeared. He recanted so he
the police officer, god you're gonna. He stated right on tv. He was with her the night that she disappeared and they were out drinking and they broke up and the whole story I described to you, but
and he later said, oh yeah
it did happen, but that wasn't the night that you actually disappeared was before that we would never charged with my mother's disappearance or certainly murder, and my mother never been
going back over his memories from before this shocking revelation, surfaced, recalls,
recalled a curious interaction that one of his brothers had with an officer from another agency back in the nineteen. Eighty is another connection to John bolton: go on back to the bed field connection
anfield is involved in two ways: number one: when jack was imprisoned at norfolk, state
we would have walpole and not at stake when, in order to maximum security correctional fulfilling, he was able to get on a work relief programme. He worked at met field hospital. He would go unreported medfield state hospital, he would sleep there. He was on this
release programme, and while he was there, he was able to sneak out come visit. My mother
as long as he was that by your whatever time, six o clock in the morning or whatever it was per head check time. He would be undetected so he was able to get in
of their whenever he wanted, or at many
While he was there to come in
that my mother, I spend the night and hang here the other met. Your connection is bob hudson, who was a battlefield police officer contact my older brother many years ago back in the eighties, and he apparently was the son of one of the bright.
Police officers who, whether additionally involved in my mother's missing persons case and he was going.
true, allegedly some of the his father's old unsolved files came upon my mother's. He took it upon himself to start doing some research into the case and contacted my brother to say hey by the way we spoke with one of jack, Bolton's old cellmates, who claimed that bolton confessed to him that he killed my mother and once my brother told me that the three of us brothers went to the medfield police department met with the chief and had this conversation with him. The chief said: bob hudson spoke completely out of school. He overstepped his authority. He had no right to contact you. He never should have contact you. He has issues and we have issues with him and it all.
Kind of swept under the rug. So I have shared this information. Obviously, with fact in police and all of the detective sergeant detectives that have been working on my mother's case over the years, they ve all try to locate files. First, they went to the memory of police and they all
will not tell them anything about bob. Hudson Bob hudson apparently went and changed his name over the years,
you another name is no longer bob hudson. According to certain protective bill duke and who I worked with closely from Boston, we're not getting any information from medfield. He still continues to recap, and
got no in part. One rick mention that there was an article in the Boston Harold around christmas thier, his mother, vanished
featured a photo of dorothy sons and anthony's new wife Michel. It brief
mention that dorothy had disappeared back in june of that year, but the primary focus
of that article was how the
We were celebrating christmas without their mother because that
have been what she would have wanted them to do. It was a somber. Peace are also showcase. Their resilience well
urging newspaper archives her any mention of dorothy. We saw that article, but we all
who found one more
come out a week prior still more than six months after dorothy was last seen, it included
some interesting ted bits of information that we would like to share the article
was published on December twenty first nineteen. Seventy five in the boston, Harold it was titled missing. Mother of three might be dead and see
that one theory the police had was a dorothys body may have been crushed along with her car in a compact, her in an auto graveyard somewhere south of Boston, the article
scribes Dorothy as an attractive blonde divorce say who was? I seen around one a m on june forth,
it goes on to say that two days later and
officer at one of the state's prisons said that she called to ask that a furlough not be granted for specific inmate, with whom she
in friendly with, for several years
go also notes that the inmate was currently serving time for an armed robbery. Wellbeing
is not specifically named in this article. We can assume that's who their referring to, since
matches the circumstances we know about his incarceration at the time, but one
they jumped out to us as important about this phone call that they mentioned. Is that
throws the entire timeline into question is apposite
dorothy, disappeared on june forth and then call
prison on the sixth
could not officer have had an incorrect day? Could she have called
here to her disappearance asking them not to let bolt now did
If know that her life was in danger,
later in the article dorothy
eldest son anthony, is quoted. He said his mother had been talking about getting rid of her car. It says the
wait who was in the work release program said that he could have it crushed, and then she could buy a new one with the insurance money if she reported it stolen. This is interesting because if true, it sounds
Bolton had a connection somewhere that he could have a vehicle crush
then commit insurance fraud saying that it was stolen. Could the police
theory the her body and vehicle were crushed by the answer and offer
you told the reporter that Anthony recalled that his mother was acting extremely nervous before she disappeared and
things seem to be bothering her. They also
stated that the enemy, who again
we can assume was bolton, told
police, at one of his friends, had seen dorothy late in the summer of seventy five in a small
town on the northern tipp of cape cod, then in the fall door.
They are driven by the home of one of his family members in vermont it struck,
a strange that only people close to this inmate had seen this missing woman. That would be quite the coincidence, pull
I noted that those sightings could not be substantiated in this article.
The inmates claim that he had not seen dorothy since may the police
I acknowledge that the inmate was known to quote rough. Her up in three thirty a m arguments. The enemy
accused dorothy of drinking heavily. However, investigators went to the bar where dorothy was drinking with her friends on the night of her disappearance. They were
of you her check from that night and it didn't
here, that she had been drinking heavily that evening
after those two articles and late december, of seventy five. We could find
no further mention of dorothy in the local papers until the summer of seventy six, when her sister Mary was seeking guardianship and custody of rick and John, a legal notice was published in the boston herald address
dorothy carrasco of parts unknown and anyone else who may have an interest or desire to objective dorothy sister, gaining custody of the boys then
eighteen. Eighty four dorothy
sister Mary filed a petition with the court to have Dorothy legally declared dad and again
legal notice was published, and then it wasn't until two thousand twenty one when rick began reaching out to the local media again, that more articles finally came out all three of
These sons interviewed with Boston twenty five news, hoping that may be some one. Would come forward now that so much time had passed, rick
spent many decades. Looking for answers, he's been,
working alongside law enforcement. Since he was just
fourteen back when this happened, he didn't know a whole lot about the initial investigation. We filed a record request with the boston police department, which was denied because of the ongoing investigation. We all
requested an interview and the interview
two gator initially agreed to speak with us, but the public information officer wouldn't grant permission writ told us
he's learned about what the police department has in their files about their investigation into John bolton early on that police told us back when this happened, the police told us they questioned him. The police
does that they gave him a wider check. Your chest, which we passed to this day, locked in police
say they have no record of the attacked the task, but they told us that we ve held that to be a truth all these years, but sadly, detective build, do good who had her foreign? Stick
of her case said that he has no information other than me telling
him that he was given a lie: detector test when bill dugan questioned him in his interview with bolton about a lie. Detective gordon says he never
add one. He said that all he knows is around
when my mother disappeared, that suddenly his work release programme, his liberties were taken away from him
short period of time, and then they were reinstated. He and he claimed that he had no idea what you're, not that, had anything to do with them. Looking at
him for my mother's situation are not breeze.
suddenly got his. He got reinstated and was able to
who continue with his work release programme until he was ultimately released
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We mention briefly in part one that John Bolton had a violent past you all.
heard about the brutal beatings that reckon john witnessed with our own eyes and endured themselves, but now we
Like to rewind and take a deeper look at John bolton's past years, before dawn
they disappeared. Someone else close to John Bolton had been reported, missing, rick told,
What he knows about this. He beat biggest two year old, daughter to death and technically wasn't his daughter. It was his wife daughter
he winds up, beating the daughter to death and he buried the body, and then he and his wife called the police and say
dot is missing and then, within a short time
at the time she breakdown is that no, he killed her. He buried her an allegedly again from what I hear
he threw up in the air and let her fall to the floor. She fabric head trauma which led to it
better not be beat her more than that, but there are articles out there about jack balkan. He was tat.
With murder, but then somehow
some way they didn't want to have the sun, his true son, who was it-
for years older than the daughter have to testify
so they one of cutting this crazy deal that he only
get charged with manslaughter instead and he wondered
serving like for five years.
For the murder of this little girl,
and then shortly after that, he wind up in florida. Some
where he gets busted for armed robbery and you wind up in Florida prison, and it was after that
in seventy one ish that my
many. Seventy one is around that time period that my mother meet him and he becomes part of my life.
wanting to learn more about this. We turn to newspaper archives to see what we could find. It was me,
thursday, of nineteen sixty sex. When a two year old girl disappeared from marshfield massachusetts. Job
bolton was just twenty five years old at this time
in the earliest newspaper articles about this, the lead
girl is listed as johns daughter, Mary Jane Bolton.
He said that Mary Jane was playing in their yard around nine, a m on europe day when he left effect
who playmates from their neighborhood johns
that, when he returned Mary Jane, was gone, almost
if she had vanished into thin air.
Mary Jane was reported missing and several days later, the police chief said to the north Adams transcript that he believed that quote
the child, Mary Jane Bolton, had been abducted by sex, fiend, Austin.
by an audio and then picked up by a panic stricken driver
extensive searches have been conducted in the days after Mary Jane had disappeared and they turned up nothing: the police chief,
that she must not be in the area. The green fields
work- is that document of the search efforts which included aeroplanes, helicopters and five hundred searchers on the ground. The weaken them
Mary Jane went missing. They searched four hundred vacant summer homes in the area. It was initially reported that bloodhounds attract Mary Jane sent through the woods and then lost it at root. One thirty: nine, though the police
chief later refuted that claim the police chief
quoted in an article in the sunday boston advertiser on january, twenty third nineteen sixty sex. He said that he didn't believe that Mary Jane had just toddled off by herself score.
The children were out early at seven, a m some within fifty yards of the bottom residents new
boys and milk men were making their deliveries and people were heading to church. A somber John Bolton told reporters
all we want, is to get our baby back unharmed in another
article in the Sunday boston advertiser titled little blonde last a week. The police,
you mentioned that he had received seven anonymous notes, one claim that they weren't looking in deep enough water, because the body had been weighted down. The articles
It's that no one can say whether these notes were written by a cruel but otherwise harmless crackpot or by some.
Gloating over his terrible knowledge. Finding
after Mary Jane was last seen a six
three year old man in new york confessed killing her, but investigators believed that this was a false confession in charge:
him with intoxication instead,
mary genes, mother made a plea to the public which was published in the boston globe on January fourth, nineteen sixty sex. She said that she was bathing her five year old son John junior, when Mary Jane was placed outside on the patio, with a doll and carriage gifts that she had gotten from her grandmother. Presumably,
the christmas holiday that had just passed John
had gone over to see if other kids in the neighborhood wanted to play. And then Mary Jane was gone. She said
I just hope. Whoever has my baby will leave her someplace, so I can get her back. Please bring my baby back.
It was around this time that newspapers discovered that John Bolton wasn't the child's father and her name.
Actually, Mary, Jane Stamford, her father lived in florida and flew into town to help search for her a february
Nineteen sixty six article in the boston globe, states
regions. Mother cardella, had been made
to John Bolton. They had a son together, John junior, then the two
divorced. She then married cecil stanford, and they had Mary Jane before divorcing.
dela then went on to marry John Bolton again in early
february. Just a month after Mary Jane had disappeared, our delegation
and finally told the police what she knew this home.
In child story was a charade, John and or della bolton had known all along that she was dead police
The John had struck, kicked and beaten Mary Jane the night before they reported her messing Mary, Jane mother, let police to her grave about five miles from their home near route
on thirty nine in a lover's lane area, and that was
They found Mary, jane nude body, wrapped in a blanket in a shallow snow, covered grave, this
police stated that mary genes, mother had wanted to tell them the truth before, but that she was
living in great fear. John
rested and charged soon he would say
trial.
the community was watching closely. They volunteered their time to search for a missing child that they believed had been abducted. They generously offered their own money for a reward, and now they felt duped a trial,
John and our della son, John Junior testified he was just
six years old at the time he said that he saw his father toss Mary jane by our arms and legs onto a bunk bed. She, then,
out of the floor and his father stepped on her in spanked her. He said that his mother was not home when he saw john beating Mary Jane. While reading about this, we couldn't help.
Think of how eerily similar this was to a story that Dorothy's son John had told us about in part one speaker the and grabbed me when we broke into my bedroom, my brother rickard, I had been bed and I slammed my forehead, which one of splitting on the upper
one of the bed and I fell to the floor and be in that
you're. My mother now is screaming to reside, not hurt, don't worry about it
We didn't have the opportunity to speak with John. Until this series was late in production, we had already learned about how little mary Jane was brutally killed in hearing the story from John was chilling. We ve
john and rick speak about finding it difficult to forgive their mother for putting them in harm's way by inviting this man into their lives. Hearing
what happened to Mary Jane makes.
Realize how much danger they were actually an john
have ended up just like Mary Jane. Had he been a little younger, a little smaller or hit his head a bit differently when he was thrown into the bunk bets a trial.
Medical examiner testified that Mary Jane had died from severe severe blows. Her death was com
by injuries and hemorrhaging as a result of multiple blows
On the stand, our stated that when she came home from our job as a hairdresser,
found little mary jane on the bank that she was
we still quiet and pale. She went on to say I picked her up. I try
breathed into her to give her artificial respiration are dead,
asked if Mary genes body was marked- and she said little bottom was black and bruised ardelia told us
that. She went to the phone to call for help, but John stopped her and took the phone away, our della
alt testified that she was with john when he drove out to the isolated area to dispose of her daughters body. The prey
the commission argued that John had forced our della to aid in the disposal of her daughters body.
Five, I am ardelia recalled that John put Mary jane body in the car, along with a shovel they drove out
The area where John dug a grave ardelia went on to say that after he prepared
the grave he handed her mary, jane body and said here you have to do it. The
boston globe, published a statement that John Bolton had made to the court. He said
swear to you and to your honor, I love my daughter and I would not do anything to cause her death.
You, ve heard many witnesses and I wish my son was not brought in here.
I'm worried about what effect this court appearance will have on him later in life. I did ever
impossible to protect and keep my family together. I realise how wrong it was and how selfish I was an ice
I found out that I've been made the scapegoat. The devil
accused Mary Jane mother, of lying on the stand and claim that she wanted to get rid of John bolton so that she could get by
with mary, Jane father, who
the provide a better life for her, although
it does seem like a strange argument if she wanted to get back with mary genes father, why which
kill Mary, jane and frame John for it. But
the attorney also question the credibility of John six year old son who testify
that he had witnessed his father beating Mary Jane, defend.
witnesses also claimed that they had seen are della strike mary Jane in the past, one
be sitter recalled. Seeing Mary Jane was severe wounds back in november about a month before her death
cut over her eyes. Her nose was scraped and her. Let puffy
she was told that Mary Jane had fallen down some steps. She
scribe, Mary Jane as drowsy, and wanting to sleep, the witness
that she had watched Mary Jane several times up until the seventeenth or eighteenth of december, not law.
Before her death
and she seemed to be sick all the time she was often vomiting, sometimes even vomiting blood
defence tried to muddy the waters by making unclear when Mary Jane was injured and who had heard
Her,
The babysitter was telling the truth about Mary Jane's condition. It may mean that she had been abused for a longer period of time than one singular incident on new year's eve. Despite
defences attempt to shift the blame onto mary, Jane mother. John Bolton was convicted of second degree murder and received a mandatory life sentence. Your pay
hopefully wondering how it is that John Bolton was convicted of second degree murder in nineteen. Sixty six and given a life sentence, but was
free man in the early seventys when he met dorothy garage. Go well but
The attorney immediately filed an appeal, a june twenty three
nineteen. Sixty seven article in the boston globe outlined the attorneys motion for a new trial. The attorney said that the prosecutions case was faulty because it really
too heavily on the testimony of Bolton son, John junior, who was only six years old at the time he clay
that John junior wasn't competent.
The attorney also argue that some of our della buttons testimony should have been excluded because they were
conversations between a husband and wife folder
was granted a new trial and then pleaded guilty to manslaughter his life.
and was then reduced to eight to twelve years and he didn't and observing that full sentence.
John believes that the leniency that bolton was shown by the courts was what put his family in danger
bolton remained in prison for that original life sentence. He would have never come into their lives. He wouldn't have been
well to abuse them for years and John believes that its likely that his mother would have never disappeared.
this man, I mean I can express it enough just what kind of an animal
this man was and his conviction for his daughter
It wasn't a fourth rodeo in regard to being incarcerated
He had been in jail several times once in florida. I believe in Massachusetts as well, and then you know that the rest
The main is year after what happened with the daughter and, of course the account is it,
We had in my wife and what he wanted prevention.
going to my mother, my mother,
we should have met this man. He was convicted of murder.
showing his daughter, Mary Jane, was her name and he was sentenced to life in prison. It went to appeals in massachusetts and the court felt that the only witness against him was his son, who was very young, but he witnessed the events and decided to you know: hey, take it back to the lower court or take another look at this case and before the case was adjudicated, they wound up actually reaching a plea deal where he pled guilty to aggravated man.
water and the one for the massachusetts themes, childish gap with only one an additional two years, so
You got out of prison. My mother never should have met this man, the murder of a child, tat to pity the berger itself. That thing you're act
something had to be building up over a number of years, and I am certain that that wasn't the first instance of abuse that occurred in that home.
Grabbed this young girl, and so
Her in
rammed her head, that's how this young girl died and then you wanna burying heard and read:
the beginning of the trial. I've been yet his wife at the time came out in revealed
What do you mean by that time? The police had already discovered the body and everything else, but she testified. She wasn't there. She didn't see it, but you know she testified as to what type of persona
had on top of the leniency. That John was shown in the case of a murdered toddler when you
incarcerated years later he was allowed to basically come and go as he pleased John sees this as another failure of the system he should
been out and about when his mom disappeared. There were many many times in massachusetts, especially during the late sixties. Early seven days they were very, very lenient on krim of they would allow the mouse for allows and passive. I mean we're talking about violence. Criminal, but they would allowed work programmes and things of that nature. Then there were times when
open with their at our house over night. Now that was something that the state and not allow, but she would be sterile
at our house. I can only speculate all that occurred, but I have absolutely no facts behind it. He was a known thief. He was a thief that fenced an awful lot of good, it's my belief in others as well that he had some kind of an arrangement which some of the
at nor fought state prison where they would allow him out, because they knew that he would be staring at that they would get their peace.
well, the cases of a missing two year old child and a missing forty year old woman are very different. Theirs
interesting parallels between the cases. First, we.
The testimony of John junior lines. Up with what rick and his brothers witness. As far as John Bolton's violent behaviour but also bolton had
drafted, an elaborate story when Mary Jane was killed, claiming that she was taken from the back yard while he was walking round the neighbourhood. Looking for playmates for her the story seem to be working in his favour until his wife come
and told the police the truth, it seemed
oh Bolton had allegedly forced his wife's involvement in the disposal of her daughters body. Perhaps he believed that if she that our hands dirty too, she wouldn't report him to authorities at the risk of implicating herself did bolt
to do the dirty work on his own. The next time,
John Bolton, son, John junior, was a key witness in his original trial because he test
either he had seen his father beat Mary Jane enriched
Years John junior found wreck on social media and the two spoke but bognor reaches out to me on that
you're a low area for things like. Oh, my goodness. I mean this is jack, both in fun.
but then I said I had interest to say. Let me talk to him and his little sister was killed by jack. You out
Everyone here is that there were two years old and he was probably only like for years over five years old, so the sun in his competent, whom he says he believed for what it we're kindred spirits that we have a connection because we shared the
father figure and even though he never married my mother, he was involved with her for five years or so before he went to prison for the next time.
very with her and all the way through his incarceration, he talked to us how he moved from marshfield where they lived where his sister die.
They moved to new york and moved to michigan when he was six years old faded to me.
his mother lived her life and fear that he'd get her. So John, the sun mother lived in fear, tat. The father would get out of prison and get her
her name without della right away, John, and in my conversations with him, claims that Adela kept the journal, and he said there were journal entries about my mother in her journal. He said that this was his quote to me.
At his mother wrote in her journal. He made one woman disappear, he can make us disappear to and that's why they left, allegedly marshfield.
got a new yorker, then gotta michigan
You were married, another guy, the sun says he never talk to his father and killed in its thirties. He finally reached out to him once in his thirty. Then his father really didn't want me
to do with him jack stand up. Guy didn't want anything to do with him, so he's really need no longer in touch with his father. When I spoke with the sun,
I mean he would look for his mother's journal. I know I shared this information with detective Jamie Stewart, told him about my conversation with him. I felt have a note here that said that he actually did contact him or not. The
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had seen and John bolton and if she knew about that initial murder, conviction and the later manslaughter plea deal that her boyfriend had taken for the brutal death of little mary, Jane rick. Explore
what he knows. We thought there occurred the results of the relationship with jack
These five years younger than her number one he was by all counts you an attractive charismatic
If a guy is a matter of fact, she first met him. She found out about the fact that he had been accused
of murdering his two year old. If you wanted to research, something you have to look it up on microfiche IRA,
member going to the library with her. While she looked for articles to find out to see if he could research what had happened a few years back
But I remember my mother being interested to find out more about that case.
He told her. How now?
the wife who beat it a gap, and here he was covering up for her and he took the fall far right, like the noble prince chow
That is why you might like all. I can say that my mother, she was lonely
She finds this guy, he the exciting, and I told you he was a rebel our life. She was I'm sure fascinated with the bad boys of bottom up, but I would say
answer. My father know that he was convicted of men,
water and did I know that he was convicted of manslaughter back then yes, I'd. My other knew because he told her- and I told you
listen to their library and researched some other stuff on micro. Fish to try to get bored
and I remember her- did counting the storing and basically saying that. Well, it was really them for motherhood
this and that he was the one protecting the mother and he took the rap for it being a chivalry says he was for whatever her reasons that she couldn't end
break away from this relationship, and I think he had fear about breaking away from their relationship.
one point: I remember going over to my grandmother's house and having sunday dinners prior to her disappearing.
My grandmother would say to her. Oh I see you have more bruises on you. You got more bruises here, you've got more bruises there. I guess you must have
and again I get you might be like the committee, a person in the world and will be a conversation about the fact that he beat her again. But again, she just could not break away
and she had herself in harm's way and she had often homes all of us in harm's way as a result
we don't know if Dorothy had ever attempted to end the relationship with bolton
She had, or maybe
too scared to we know that leaving abuser is an especially dangerous time would have Darth
had tried to end the relationship with bolton on june. Fourth, nineteen, seventy five, and what about
call mentioned in the december. Seventy five article, an officer
The prison claim that Dorothy had found them asking that a furlough not be granted was dorothy
raid for her life. We
likely, never know the answers to these questions. We have no proof that job
bolton, killed, dorothy or the
any knowledge of her fate only
specialists and stories from summits, but
he can say based on what rick and his brothers witnessed, and what we know about how Mary Jane was killed. That bolton seems like a man with a violent temper, but we also must acknowledge that there remains a possibility that Dorothy could have driven away from the penalty box or an
after hours club that night and driven
The road into a body of water, a waterway that has concealed dorothy and her vehicle for decades or
possibility that someone else entirely could be responsible for dorothys disappearance, rick
who believes that it's possible that bolton may have disposed of his mother in her car in a waterway and is hoping that with the newer technologies and renewed search efforts, they might find some evidence, or you have a budget- your hunch about that, because that particular body of water, that I have a hunch about it located between my home and
Bolton's home at the time and ride one there and then,
but the body of water is jamaica. Pond
it's on the list of sonar search and recovery to get to, and they intend to do that very shortly.
Dozens of bodies of water already jamaica, find it very difficult to get into and it requires the approval to get a boat.
there, but that, in my mind, is the one because he could literally
the car in there and you are you're talkin forty eight,
It's about a landscape of the lot different around you make upon than it does today is more built up. He could have easily dump the car in there and walked back on the road and rail
which is maybe a mile or two from there
What I know he was was a truck driver, though I know he
I way around a vehicle and he was
he was real criminal. I got tells me that, in addition to it, I'm robberies and his been bought it charges.
Then he was involved in a lot of things.
I don't believe anyone other than jack bolton was ever looked at as a suspect being involved and that's what started detective Dugan said he said when a woman disappears. He says you've got to look at those who are closest to her and he identifies that was the boy
and John jack Bolton. We all went on the record, as stated he mistreated mother, countless times that we witnessed
knowledge. There would never anyone ever looked at as as a suspect that I never found her
you know they never found her body at about two different companies now searching the waterways of boston. Doing sooner shown our searches,
over the last couple of years of the last two years to three years, even continuing to this day, but nothing has been given many vehicles found, but none of which were my mother's
people get into accidents on the way home lots of times, but they don't just vanish into thin air. Somebody who see the accidents,
but even seen the car somebody would have seen something disturbed. Somebody would have seen something I don't think it's possible. I die. I dont believe that a viable
possibility I may there is a pretty direct route home from the penalty bach
John agrees with his brother that Bolton was most likely involved, but he does have a tiny bit of doubt in his mind. For first wall jerk often was involved with the boss, the mafia, on the italian side, nor
The Boston, I believe in a pair internal evidence. I have to believe vash. I don't know for certain. Could somebody else have done that? I have to allow for the possibility that yes, somebody,
else could have done, but I am ninety nine point. Nine percent sure that what the Boston police say, what my brother's feel that
mother is of course get that she had been murdered,
at the hands of jack dolphin, for myself, of course, is that
are you a tiny bit of doubt, but make sure you don't owe me, even though, of course, there is absolutely no evidence
she left, the being. There was never any activity on her account for a cow was never found, but where
her remains were never found, his all
just that little little question on my head, the telled me nebula,
finding his mother or some semblance of answers has become a mission for wreck. He was
the kid when his mom vanished and his father hadn't been around for a number of years he had to fight
his way on his own his mind
unsolved disappearance, nagged and nagged. Him too,
point where he knew he had to do something. Rick explained how the
for answers, became so important to him ass. He got older
I was in my twenty. They had finished high school and I had finished even
college and then I moved
as a young man of twenty two, when you ve been
college, and I moved to connecticut this that a career, and it would at some point during that career that I,
That requires further. I remember going to the person who
the head of my credit department, credit card departments, are retailer and asking him
I told him the story to my mother disappeared when I was a kid in anybody ever accept her credit information or credit cards are anything pop up on credit files.
my mother, and I remember him telling me no. It was shortly after my twenty
like, I said that I I became more involved and thought of contacting bought in police, and
working with. I want to say I am one of the first guys
He was one of the first ones to work with me to get the actually produced a missing persons picture that was posted, shoe the BP website
and asking for any. This is back in her. I'm talking in the eighties
mid eightys. I guess work with them.
Many of them over the years. Get one would retire. This one would move on to another division and that it I'd ever new contact. Then I'd make notes in
I had a journal. All these different notes that I made from all these conversations.
I had and then you know, I'd have a conversation in your mouth.
two or three: what tat by some pounds a year what passed by and then I would reach out again and then another month or two, and then it was all me driven because
there was no real follow up. There was no answer and I continue to push the issue and push the issue. Have you looked into
that you checked into that. What are you doing telling my story, the best I could to each person?
sharing every detail. I could and like I said
until I finally ten years ago, got to work with
they'll do again, and we made some progress where he searched certain rivers that I mentioned to him
and he's the one who actually reached out to jack Bolton and him in it
no one had a conversation with jack bolton and that's when jack Bolton put himself with her that night, look as painful. It is not easy to keep opening up an old wounds and keep searching for answers and keeps
all up. I used to be you every time I got up the phone, I would be upset, but
If I knew that, I tried to do something and tried to get some answers, I do it for me. I do it for
own peace of mind. I want her to be found. I want to know what happened. I think I'm dreaming at that point that some kind of justice and accountability
combat. That is what I want when Dorothy
was reported missing. Her case was investigated as a missing persons case, and today
It's considered a homicide, investigation,
Toto set investigators today acknowledge that not much was done at the start because of
other department handled missing persons, cases in that era, something that we ve heard, often from so many families with decades old, missing persons cases, but for rick did
management doesn't make up for the last time.
In my mind they dropped the ball tremendously. In my work over the decades now, with cold case homicide, they acknowledge the fact that look missing persons in the seventies were treated a lot differently than missing persons today or whatever that's worth from our interviews of a couple years ago
made reference to. The fact that police searched for my mother's vehicle and her for my mother and her vehicle
in the waterways of boston at the time, but there was nothing obviously ever found
that's all I know of what was actually conducted
That said, I don't believe I dont believe anything was done to be honest with you. It wasn't like the cops or come into our house.
Every other day following up saying: oh yeah, we're checking this and will look into that and having more follow up question there was like she disappeared and it just put was like there's no support whatsoever. If, like everybody drop balls and we fell through the cracks and like I said it, s called case- homicide detectives. But I've worked with over the years. So many of them all acknowledge that that's what it was like in the seventies and missing persons
papers back then were not treated with feathers. Emergency like they are and how they are today.
but you know you know here we are forty. Eight years later, I look at some point. Everybody everybody that knew anything knows anything is gone.
And he's gonna lie, buried alive and fairer. Sort of florida alive and kicking then am living his life.
John has carried a lot of complicated feelings and mixed emotions about his mother and her disappearance through his childhood and into adulthood, but he knows
All of this has made him a stronger person today got my mother of our future. Will reach gradual point of anything
and rapture yards deserve any absolution, her life, but I thought you had when all is said and done. Regardless of what happened,
and the families in as much as I said that no hey, I'm duets, two thousand made that I'm totally without compassion. I mean I hope it's there.
About the wife of one of you believe, and I hope that she's a piece. I hope that there is good that may come for her in the future, but
you're something while she was alive. It just stir it didn't work. You know me,
that work for me- and, like I said you know, maybe
You'll find some title: justice and peace in the gap that she could never
five in life, but of course, that the euro is to change the worst idea of what her
It's my mother. I wonder: what's she aware of what would happen
Did she know that she was about to die? You know what she'll
during the summit in this question.
No scenarios at haunted me my entire life, but I still maintain
having my mother missing
in my life? Growing up, I believe, has made me the person that I am today stronger, but I still don't feel a total regret about us again. I still don't feel that my child,
it was at that time were wrong. I mean they perpetuate now. Even until today I have a daughter, she's, twenty four years old, a wonderful young, lady, very accomplished. Wonderful job couldn't be more proud of her, but I don't even use my mother.
Them to my daughter, dorothy, my darling those bought. My mother is some of the things that
become my wife and yet some of the minor think that I mentioned to her. But I don't call her
my daddy already like that. I only whenever I refer to her. I always refer as my mother- that's state nation, that nobody
was what goes on behind closed doors is really very true. You just never knew
what was going on in europe back in that day, I mean it was almost a cottage industry that you know there was domestic violence
you're, not everything, go home and, of course, not everything of degree, but it's just
amazing. Yo nowadays are made people our help, much more accountable,
Our action in that regard and tobacco farmers. Honestly, all three of us a face,
our own demons had different parts of our life. Some things I can
relate directly to buy up, bringing any abuse and horror thy face in that house. But not everything across the media have made mistakes, and I kick a hundred percent responsibility for them, but hey she
report, first stamp on us in a negative way and, like I said all three of us have suffered at work,
One time or another because of what we pardon from her for myself, one of the things I've learned is, I finally broke like my daughter likes or twenty four years old.
never put a finger on my daughter. I've never put a finger on me.
wife. I've been married now for thirty three years.
What happened to dorothy garage go on the evening of june. Fourth, nineteen. Seventy five. We know that
left home that evening with the intention of meaning some girlfriends for drinks. She was seen at the penalty box at night and its belief. That
He stayed until around closing time. It's been
that may be. She went to an after hours club after closing, but no one knows for sure, but then we
We have this bizarre story from John bolton at the time.
in Bolton had been incarcerated
recently transferred to a facility with minimal security where he was able to work and come and go as he pleased rick's other.
Are these friends did not recall seeing bolton at the penalty box, but Bolton
The two were together later that night they got into a fight and broke up bolton clean
dorothy was so enraged that she chased him down the road in her gold and black ford, maverick brick believe
that this is a cover story for what really happened to his mother that night. But all we know for sure is that Dorothy and her vehicle disappeared never to be seen again in
the ears rick has been pushing for more coverage and work to be done on his mother's case in twenty twenty one, his efforts paid off when many
local news affiliates published stories about dorothy boston. Twenty five news did in new england unsolved segment about dorothy. An investigator was interviewed and stated that he had spoken to John, who claimed to have had no knowledge of what happened to dorothy. The reporter bob word was able to reach bolton by phone at his home in florida. He again reiterated that he had no idea what happened to dorothy. He said that he wishes. He did know it's clean
so John and rick carry scars from their childhood and perhaps some open wounds that may never fully heal. They both want and need different things at the end of all of this and they're hoping that someone will come forward with a new tip or lead at the time of dorothy garage goes disappearance. She was described as approximately five foot six inches tall and around one hundred and thirty pounds she had blonde hair and brown eyes. Dorothy also had all of her teeth removed and had a full set of dentures. If you have any information regarding the disappearance of dorothy garage go, please contact the Boston police department, homicide unit at six one, seven, three, four three
for four: seven: zero. If you'd like to remain anonymous, please call one eight hundred four nine for tips.
the word tipped to seven four six, three,
view or loved ones- are the victim of intimate partner violence please reach out to the national domestic violence hotline
lined out of work or the attacks by sending the word start to eight eight seven, eight eight, you can also call the hotline twenty four hours a day, seven days a week at one, eight hundred, seven, nine, nine safe. That's one, eight hundred, seven, nine, nine seven to three three,
and what it has been a vested interest. In my mother's case for the vast majority of the body and yes, she's been missing their work for me, calling up over the decades with a variety of different called case detectives over there over the decades. It never would have gotten the publicity that it finally did, which was just over the last year or two years
We needed that
like a decade. I have been the one to carry the torch, the more pressure
You feel like the bottom line is that that is forty eight years ago and everybody
It knows anything is gonna be dead before you know it did. Last year I was on every channel,
and blocked- and I was in both major newspapers- the globe in the herald in Boston, offering a fifty thousand dollar reward.
Information leading to her remains so that we can give her a profit burial and that's hard to keep this journey. But what good is it going to do?
If I don't find you much remains what good is? How is that can benefit you, I'm not the type that.
All they found my mother's were made by god. It's burn a home and, like I said, I still have the forty five years of this. I think that after all this time I am entitled to know what happened to her
and that's where I sit today. That's where I sat for many years. It was a trauma and that's how you feel you want answers. You want revenge
What the fuck you want accountability, and now I want to find her body- and I wonder you give her a proper burial
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that brings us to the end of episode. Four hundred and five I'd like to thank rick and john for speaking with us for this story. If you have a missing loved one that you'd like to have featured on the show, there's a case submission form at the vanished podcast dot com. If you'd like to join in on the discussion, there's a page and discussion group on facebook, you can also find us on twitter and instagram. If you like our show, please give us a five star rating and review. You can also support the show by contributing unpatriotic, be sure to tune in next week, we'll be covering a case from Alabama thanks for listening,
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