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 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.

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.

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 homicide detectives are investigating after a body was found Sunday night on a houseboat in Charlestown. Police said officers responded to Shipway Place around 10:43 p.m. to “investigate an incident” on a houseboat, where they found the body.