Songwriter Sought After Slaying in Woodland Hills

A Chicago songwriter sought by police in connection with the slaying of a Woodland Hills man is also wanted for questioning in a 6-month-old missing persons case in Chicago.

Los Angeles and Chicago police are looking for Jack Goga, 50, who drove from Chicago to Los Angeles in May with Digna Adames, 25, who has not been heard from since. Neighbors of Charles (Chick) Evans, 60, whose corpse was discovered by police in his Del Valle Avenue home Wednesday, say Goga had lived in Evans’ house for several months and was an odd counterpoint to the neighborly Evans.

“Chick was a very outgoing, friendly person, and the other guy (Goga) would just stand there,” said Jerry Cowart, who has lived a few doors away from Evans for 12 years. Goga “would never talk to anyone. He just seemed like a cold man.”

One of Evans’ friends, concerned after not hearing from him for several days, found Evans’ bullet-riddled corpse on the floor of his one-story house Wednesday afternoon. Gone were Goga and Evans’ 1972 yellow Volvo station wagon.

Evans’ neighbors said he was a quiet man with an affinity for cars. Evans was also an avid gun collector and used to take weekend trips with his wife into the desert to shoot weapons, neighbors said. After Evans’ wife died several years ago, “he pretty much became a recluse,” said Fred Jennings, who lives across the street,

It is unknown whether any of Evans’ vast gun collection was taken, police said.