The Boston attorney who was found stabbed to death on his houseboat was wrapped and weighted down, a prosecutor said.

Police went to the marina to conduct a welfare check after Donohue’s family hadn’t heard from him for 48 hours, a prosecutor said in court Friday.

A Boston woman was charged with murder Thursday after a Charlestown man was found dead on a houseboat earlier this week.

New information has been released on the murder of a man found stabbed to death on a houseboat in Charlestown last weekend.

A 24-year-old named a “person of interest” in connection with the death of a man on a luxury houseboat in Charlestown now faces a murder charge, prosecutors said Thursday. Nora Nelson was arrested at the scene of the man’s death on Sunday night on a trio of warrants charging her with a variety of domestic violence offenses unrelated to the Charlestown case.

Police were conducting a welfare check at the houseboat, which was docked at the Charlestown Marina, when they found the body of Joseph Donohue, 65, police said.

BOSTON - A man found dead on a houseboat in Charlestown on Sunday has been identified as 65-year-old Joseph Donohue. He died from multiple stab wounds, Boston police said Wednesday, and his death has been ruled a homicide.

A distraught friend of the victim said he was a Boston lawyer and a divorced father of three. Sources said his dog was also found dead in the harbor.

A 24-year-old Boston woman was named a "person of interest" in a "suspicious" Charlestown houseboat death during her court appearance on domestic violence charges Tuesday.

A Boston woman was charged with murder Friday in the stabbing death of a man whose body was found attached to weights and wrapped in duct tape on a houseboat in Charlestown.

The woman accused of violently stabbing a Boston lawyer to death on his houseboat in Charlestown last weekend is being held without bail after it was revealed in court records that she lied to police that the victim had “gone to the Golden Banana” strip club.