By Ivan Pereira

A 32-year-old man who went on the lam after police found his wife brutally murdered fessed up to prosecutors about his crime yesterday, the Queens district attorney said.

A Queens judge will issue an intermediate sentence of 25 years to Jordan L. Hawes, 32, of 30th Street, in exchange for his guilty plea on the manslaughter of his wife Tara, according to Queens DA Richard Brown.

“Today’s guilty plea will spare the victim’s family the anguish of having to sit through a trial,” Brown said in a statement.

On Jan. 30, Jordan Hawes beat his 33-year-old wife in the head with a baseball bat as she was sleeping in their apartment, Brown said. Her body was discovered two days later by police after friends and family received several phone calls from Jordan Hawes from her phone.

The husband was no where to be found, but officers found a note he left in the apartment that said, “I killed my best friend,” according to the DA.

Officers discovered Tara Hawes’s car in Connecticut two days later and when that state’s police confronted the fugitive at a McDonald’s, he surrendered himself, Brown said.

Prosecutors did not state what the motive behind the husband’s actions were.

“This is a sad and tragic case in which a young woman’s life was cut short for no reason by the man who she should have been able to trust more than anyone –
her husband,” he said.