Prosecutors say police found Joseph Donohue's body wrapped up and weighted on his houseboat in Charlestown Sunday.

Authorities in Boston have charged a woman with murder in connection with the death of an attorney found on a houseboat in a marina over the weekend.

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.

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 lawyer Joseph Donohue, 65, was brutally murdered on his houseboat, suffering multiple stab wounds. Police discovered his duct-taped, weighted b

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.

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.