TAVARES -- After a week spent listening to testimony, taped jail phone conversations and psychiatrists’ opinions, and poring over more than 100 pieces of evidence, it took just two hours Monday for jurors to decide that Virgil Hyde III was not insane when he killed his longtime girlfriend Bobbi Wheeler.

The four-man, two-woman panel found Hyde guilty of second-degree murder in a decision that will likely put the 37-year-old behind bars for the rest of his life.

Wheeler’s mother, Dezra Wheeler, trembled – and not just from the Lupus that forces her to use a walker – and she cried when she heard the verdict. Across the aisle, Hyde’s mother, Wanda Hyde, also wept.

“There’s been devastation on both sides,” defense attorney Greg Denaro said outside the courtroom as Wanda Hyde sobbed and was comforted by one of her daughters and her husband of 40 years. “There are no winners here,” he said.

At least for the moment, however, Wheeler’s family’s tears were less bitter.

“I don’t know what to say,” Wheeler said. “I’m so overjoyed. I think justice was served. I thank God it’s over.”

Asked if she thought the verdict might bring some healing for her family, including her daughter’s two children that she and her son Billy are now raising, she said, “I hope so.

She wore a T-shirt depicting butterflies and the phrase, “I look up to the sky and I talk to you … What I wouldn’t give to hear you talk back.”

The trial was both grueling and gruesome. Hyde shot Wheeler 24 times, first with a 9 mm pistol, then two AR-style military rifles, one with .22-caliber bullets, and the other with .223 bullets. Jurors were shown a photo of Bobbi kneeling in front of a washing machine, her head resting on a garbage bag.

The issue was never whether he shot her death on June 23, 2016, but whether he knew what he was doing was wrong.

For that, jurors were asked to listen to the testimony of dueling psychiatrists.

Dr. Brian Cook, the state’s witness, either did not see all of the evidence, or he chose to ignore it, said defense attorney Greg Denaro.

That evidence included psychiatrist notes from a state hospital where Hyde was sent after the shooting, jail phone calls and comments by Hyde that he saw drones and signals from neighbors he thought were trying to steal his property.

Denaro called the young University of Florida associate professor “inexperienced” and said he relied on books instead of years of face-to-face analysis, like his expert, Dr. Jeffrey Danziger.

Danziger diagnosed Hyde as schizophrenic, including suffering from a rare disorder known as Capgras Delusion, in which people think imposters are impersonating loved ones.

Assistant State Attorney Jonathan Olson reminded jurors in his closing argument that the couple, together for 12 years and with two children, had been arguing about money. She discovered that he had about $150,000 in two bank accounts while he was borrowing money from Dezra so he could pay the electric bill.

“I lost my cool,” Hyde told Lake County sheriff’s detective Clay Watkins.

There was tremendous stress because she had finally had enough of his drug addiction to prescription pain pills and told him he needed to go to drug rehab -- or else she was going to leave him.

One thing everyone seemed to agree on during the trial, including Dezra, was that Bobbi loved Hyde to the end.

“I would just pack the kids and leave if I wasn’t scared for his life,” Bobbi wrote Wanda Hyde in a Facebook message minutes before she was killed while putting detergent in the washing machine.

“I hope she didn’t hear any of the bullets,” Olson said.