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 prosecutor revealed in court on Friday that an officer found the victim’s body “wrapped in a white and blue covering, secured with duct tape and affixed with weights."

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.