Police say a 24-year-old woman gave them fake names and refused to answer questions when they arrived at a Charlestown houseboat for a well-being check. She was arraigned Friday on a charge of murder.

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.

A Boston woman is now facing a murder charge after a man was found fatally stabbed on a houseboat in Charlestown last weekend.Nora Nelson, 24, who was arrested at the scene on unrelated warrants, was charged with felony murder in the death of 65-year-old Joseph Donohue.

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

Police found the body of a 65-year-old man “wrapped in a white and blue covering, secured with duct tape, and affixed with weights” on his houseboat in Charlestown on Sunday, prosecutors said Friday during the arraignment of the 24-year-old woman charged with his murder.

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 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.