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. The post Boston woman charged with murder in Charlestown houseboat stabbing appeared first on Boston.

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.

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.

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.

Authorities on Wednesday identified the man who was found dead earlier this week on a houseboat in Charlestown as 65-year-old Joseph Donohue.

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 man found dead of multiple stab wounds on a houseboat in Charlestown was identified Wednesday as 65-year-old Joseph Donohue, according to Boston police.

A Grove teenager told police he built a toilet paper fort over a dog bed and spent a couple of nights there after he ran away from his grandparents last weekend. Christopher Dunham, 16, was reported missing on Sunday by his grandparents.