Ralph Kroeger and Iva Kroeger sit at the defense table as they learn of their guilty verdict in their murder trial. Next to them sits Anne Barrett, a "matron" or female police officer, and behind them Peggy Holder, another matron, can be seen. Handwritten comments by the photographer on the back of the print indicate that "Ralph's hands were tightly clenched and the muscles showed on Iva's neck." They are staring impassively at the jurors. On March 9, 1963, the Tribune reported: "The Pink Butterfly, half asleep but totally aware, had her wings clipped Friday. Her mate came fluttering down beside her." "Iva and Ralph Kroeger, convicted by eight women and four men of first degree murder in a verdict that almost didn't come until this morning, could be doomed to the gas chamber within a week." ... "It's not over yet for Ralph and Iva. They and the jurors will be back in the courtroom of Superior Judge Harry J. Neubarth at 10 a.m. Wednesday when defense attorney Emmet Hagerty begins arguing -- rather, continues arguing -- that Iva is insane, "a mental cripply, a demented creature, a lunatic, an idiot." "She has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity. But this phase of the case may take no more than a day or two: The prosecution already has offered testimony by two court-appointed psychiatrists that Iva is not insane, that she's merely acting, or trying to act like an insane person." "Should the next verdict find her sane, both the Kroegers will then be considered for life imprisonment or death in the gas chamber.