Carl McCoy, 72, of 5 Danforth Road, Apt. 22, Nashua

BRENTWOOD – The Nashua man arrested in September when he turned himself in to police has been indicted on five felony charges, which stem from allegations he sexually molested a child over the course of six years.

The December grand jury for Rockingham County Superior Court handed up the indictments against Carl McCoy, 72, of 5 Danforth Road, Apt. 22, which is in a large apartment complex off the Daniel Webster Highway in the far southern end of Nashua.

Also indicted this month by the Rockingham grand jury is William Argie, 47, formerly of 118 West Road, Londonderry, and currently incarcerated at Rockingham County jail.

Argie faces one count each of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and falsifying physical evidence, according to the indictments.

The first-degree murder charge accuses Argie of purposely causing the death of Maureen Argie, his wife, “by strangling and/or smothering her,” while the second-degree murder charge alleges he “recklessly caused the death” of Maureen Argie “under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life,” also by “strangling and/or smothering her.”

The falsifying evidence charge accuses Argie of “destroying, concealing, and/or removing,” from 118 West Road, Maureen Argie’s cellphone, “with a purpose to impair” a police investigation.

Representatives of the state Attorney General’s office announced in June that authorities arrested Argie on June 7 “for the murder of Maureen Argie, age 39, on, or about, April 4” in Londonderry.

According to news reports at the time, Argie entered not-guilty pleas to the charges and waived formal arraignment in Rockingham Superior Court.

He has been jailed since then as his case proceeds.

As for McCoy, the Nashua resident, the charges on which he was indicted are all classified as special felonies. They include two counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault – pattern sexual assault, and three counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault.

The pattern sexual assault charges accuse McCoy of sexually molesting the child “over a period of two months or more, and within a period of five years,” in one case, between Aug. 5, 2006 and Aug. 5, 2008, and in the other, between Aug. 5, 2009 and Aug. 5, 2012.

The three AFSA charges accuse McCoy of molesting, or engaging in sex acts with, the child, between August 2008 and August 2012, between August 2007 and August 2012, and between Dec. 20, 2008, and Jan. 5, 2009.

According to a Telegraph story at the time, Nashua police arrested McCoy in August 2012, following a roughly three-month investigation into allegations McCoy had sexually assaulted a female child who is known to him.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

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