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