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HONOLULU — <\/span>The killings of three men on Hawaii’s Big Island<\/a> were \u201cespecially heinous, atrocious, or cruel,” prosecutors said in court documents that also seek a tougher sentence because the victims were older than 60. <\/p>\n Jacob Baker, 36, who is charged with murder in the deaths of two 69-year-old men and one 79-year-old man, appeared in court Monday where a judge granted a defense request for Baker to undergo a mental fitness examination. <\/p>\n According to a criminal complaint, the killings were of \u201cexceptional depravity.\u201d <\/p>\n Robert Shine, 69, was found dead last week submerged in a cement pond, according to police. The body of a 79-year-old man was discovered a day later a few hundred feet away. <\/p>\n And later that day, police found 69-year-old John Carse dead at a property 19 miles (31 kilometers) from where the other two bodies were located. <\/p>\n Police hadn’t released the name of the 79-year-old man, but prosecutors identified him in the criminal complaint as Frederick Morse. Friends said they knew him as \u201cChitta.\u201d <\/p>\n If convicted and if a jury agrees that Baker knew the victims were older men, or that the killings were especially heinous, he would face a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility for parole. Without the enhancement, parole would be possible.<\/p>\n