Bogatin was arrested on Oct. 28, 2025, by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and charged with felony murder and burning an occupied dwelling after investigators determined he purposely set fire to a townhome in the 20000 block of Riptide Square, in which 36-year-old Madelaine Samantha Akers was killed.
The day after the fire, Bogatin filed an insurance claim for more than double of what is owed on the recently foreclosed-upon home, according to charging documents in Loudoun County. He was identified as a suspect by surveillance footage and a bomb-sniffing dog. A bottle of a flammable liquid and a grill lighter were found in his vehicle, according to prosecutors.
In new charging documents obtained by WTOP, Bogatin was charged last week by federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania with four counts of theft of government money…