‘It’s just a hole in your heart that never heals.’ Mystery of missing mom from Brighton haunts family, 50 years later.

Dorothy P. Goroshko was last seen on June 4, 1975. NamUs

On June 4, 1975, Dorothy P. Goroshko went out for drinks with some friends at the Penalty Box, a bar on Causeway Street across from the old Boston Garden. She was last seen leaving the bar and walking to her car, according to her son.

Goroshko, who lived on Monastery Road in Brighton, has not been seen since , and her car — a gold 1970 Ford Maverick with a black roof and Massachusetts license plate 9K7755 — has never been found.

“It’s 50 years yesterday that she disappeared,” her son, Rick Goroshko, 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.”

Four years ago, the Boston Police Department appealed t