Jasper County prosecutors to seek death penalty for accused Carthage killers

The Jasper County prosecuting attorney's office Tuesday filed the aggravating factors they will use to seek the death penalty for the two men accused of committing the October 2008 murders of Bob and Ellen Sheldon, owners of the Old Cabin Shop in Carthage:

Commission of first-degree murder while committing another homicide.

Commission of first-degree murder for the purpose of receiving money or other objects of monetary value from the victims.

That each murder was “outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman in that it involved torture, or depravity of mind.”

That each murder was committed in the act of perpetrating or attempting to perpetrate another felony offense

Darren Winans, 22, Jasper, and Matthew Laurin, 20, Springfield, have been charged with the crimes.