‘Nonsensical answers’: Woman who killed attorney boyfriend on his houseboat stabbed him 67 times, leaving her pink fingernails sticking out of him, prosecutors say

A Massachusetts woman accused of stabbing her lover on his houseboat now faces new charges, to which she pleaded not guilty.

Nora Nelson, 24, was in court on Friday for her arraignment on murder charges in connection with the death of her live-in boyfriend, Boston attorney Joseph Donahue, 65. Boston police officers were called to Donahue’s houseboat in the city’s Charleston neighborhood for a well-being check in February. They were greeted at the door by Nelson, who reportedly gave officers contradictory stories and a fake name.

Officers eventually found Donahue’s body on the boat, wrapped in a carpet that was secured with duct tape and attached to dumbbells by a jump rope, police said…

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