Metro

Husband back in Queens after wife-slay bust

A Queens man accused of stabbing and beating his wife to death with a baseball bat before fleeing to Connecticut was hauled back yesterday to face a murder rap.

Jordan Hawes, 32, killed Tara Hawes — a special-education teacher in Williamsburg — in their Astoria home earlier this month and then tried to pawn a wedding band, authorities charged.

Cops said he tried to cover up the crime by sending texts to relatives from the victim’s phone saying she wasn’t going to work because of a family emergency.

Hawes was found sleeping in his wife’s Jeep on Feb. 4 in a Fairfield parking lot. He surrendered to Connecticut cops, telling them, “I did something wrong,” sources told The Post.

Hawes, a chef at a Manhattan restaurant, was hospitalized for seizures before he was returned to Queens, where he remained held on charges including murder, said DA Richard Brown.

Tara, 33, was found dead in a pool of blood on Feb. 2.

Inside their apartment, cops found two bloody knives and a baseball bat covered with blood and hair, court papers said.

They also found a bloody note, allegedly from the suspect, that read, “I don’t know what . . . happened last night, but my life is destroyed. I killed my best friend.”

Hawes was allegedly caught on cameras selling a wedding band at a pawnshop and trying to withdraw cash with the victim’s debit card.