Man charged with murder, torture in 2011 Mission District cold case

A 58-year-old man was charged with murder in the cold-case killing of a man in San Francisco’s Mission District in 2011, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Eddie Thomas was also charged with special-circumstance allegations that the homicide involved torture and elder abuse, the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

Police found the victim in his apartment on Folsom Street after they went to check on him on May 12, 2011. Investigators found Thomas’ suspected DNA “throughout the crime scene and on the victim,” the DA’s Office said…

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