MUSKEGON, MI – Barb VanBogelen realizes she will likely never get most of the roughly $2 million she’s owed from the woman who murdered her husband in 1990.

The widow of nearly 35 years is realistic.

She understands Amy Lee Black , a former juvenile lifer and now a free woman, won’t be able to repay the hefty sum.

But VanBogelen vowed to drain Black of every penny she has.

“I have said since Day 1, ‘If she has a dime and I can take a nickel of it, I’m taking it,” VanBogelen said. “I’m going to make her life hell.”

Black was 16 years old when she and her boyfriend, Jeffrey Abrahamson , killed 34-year-old Dave VanBogelen – a husband and father of two – in rural Muskegon County.

Black was tried as an adult, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced in 1991 to a mandatory term

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