Prosecutors could seek the death penalty in a Barren County triple murder case.

The identities of three bodies found in a Barren County field Sunday still aren't known, but the suspects are fessing up to the crime.

Since her tenure in 2002, Barren County Commonwealth Attorney Karen Davis says she's taken on two previous death penalty cases -- one resulting in a death penalty verdict, the other, a life without the possibility of parole sentence.

Now information gained from suspect statements may very well result in a third.

"There doesn't appear to be issues of defense, insanity, extreme emotional disturbance," said Karen Davis, commonwealth attorney for Barren County.

Davis says those are facts that could make a death penalty appropriate.

On Monday, Davis put on record during his first court appearance that 20-year-old Miguel Velazquez appears to be eligible for just that.

"A couple of the aggravators may fit. One of those being multiple deaths, one of those being obtaining personal property in the commission of the murder," she said.

Velazquez is charged with three counts of murder after hunters found three Hispanic men dead in a cave city field.

18-year-old Marcos Bautista is charged with complicity to murder, but whether he could face a death penalty too is not yet known.

"Complicity typically carries the same penalty as the primary defendant," Davis said.

Davis says it's too early to tell whether she'll try the case and ask a jury to return a death penalty verdict, but says the two have admitted to the crime and doing so led police to weapons used in the murders.

"What the two individuals told the officers and what was recovered at the scene was consistent and it was found where the defendant said it would be found," she said.

Davis says the two men charged may be related, but as to why the two would turn on three men is still unknown.

"I'm not aware of any particular connection between the perpetrators and the three deceased, other than that they had worked together in the area."

A request that both Velazquez and Bautista continue to be held without bond was also granted Monday, but their attorneys have opportunities to file bond motions before a preliminary hearing Monday.

Greg Berry, directing attorney at the Department of Public Advocacy office in Barren County, says his office will most likely do that but a decision hasn't been made at this time.