The 24-year-old woman, accused of killing a 65-year-old Boston lawyer on a houseboat, noticed that protests were drowned in court during her arrest Friday morning.
Joseph Donohue was stabbed multiple times before police found him wrapped in a ship around 11pm Sunday after his son asked for a wellness check with a Charlestown Marine. I was injured.
Nora Nelson, who appeared in court wearing white sweat and bondage, answered his door when officers arrived, Assistant District Attorney Rita Muse told the court at the hearing.
“When asked about where Donohue was, she was evasive and unresponsive,” Muse said. “Her statement was contradictory and frankly, she lied.”
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Enforcement officers will kill Nora Nelson, 24, who placed Nora Nelson in Boston's court on Friday, February 7, 2025. His houseboat section. (WFXT)
She allegedly claimed her name was “Casey” and said police Donohue was in a strip club. Anyway, officers suspecting her claim searched the houseboat.
“He went through the residence towards the back bedroom,” Muse said. “When he opened the sliding door in the bedroom leading to the patio area, he later saw what was identified as the body of 65-year-old Joseph Donohue, who was wrapped in a white and blue covering, secured with duct tape, It was heavy. “
Additional officers arrived and found Donohue's dog dead in nearby water, claiming evidence that someone had tried to clean the crime scene.
Nelson is said to have given the murder detective a “meaningless answer” along with a second fake name, Muse said.
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The suspect murderer Nora Nelson, 24, is told by Boston enforcement officers after repeated attempts to speak up in court in the arrest of the stinging death of 65-year-old lawyer Joseph Donohue. (WFXT)
Police arrested her at the scene with an unrelated warrant. She was formally charged with Donohue's murder on Thursday after an autopsy discovered that his cause and how he died was murder by stab wounds.
Without going into details, Muse told the judge that forensic evidence recovered from Donohue's artefacts led to Nelson being a crime.
The defendant, whose eyes turned down as Muse spoke, appeared to wipe tears from her eyes when he told the judge that there was a possible cause for the prosecutor to believe he had murdered Donohue. .
Defence counsel Ian Davis asked for time to consider the findings before filing a potential bail request.
Images on Google Maps show several houseboats and yachts from the Boston Marina where 65-year-old Joseph Donohue was found dead on the ship's Sunday. (Google Maps)
The court concluded a plea of innocence on Nelson's behalf, before the judge granted the prosecution's request to detain her without bail and urged the defendant to speak up.
“No one ever told me this,” Nelson began before her voice was owned by others as she tried to cut her off. “This is the first time I've heard this.”
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She is scheduled to return to court on March 6th.
The investigation is ongoing, and Boston Police are asking anyone with information about the case at 617-343-4470 to call a murder detective.
His connection to Donohue with the suspicious murderer was not immediately clear. According to public records, he lives in a houseboat and has been licensed to practice law since the 1980s.
