Editing Moors murders (section)

=== Arrest ===
After the murder of Evans, Smith agreed to return the following morning to help transport the body to the car before disposing of it on Saddleworth Moor. He arrived home around 3:00 a.m. and asked his wife to make a cup of tea, which he drank before vomiting and telling her what he had witnessed. At 6:10 a.m., having waited for daylight and armed himself with a screwdriver and bread knife{{snd}}in case Brady was planning to intercept him{{snd}}Smith called police from a [[phone box]] on the estate. He was picked up by a police car from the phone box and taken to Hyde police station, where he told officers what he had witnessed the previous night.{{sfnp|Benfield|1968|pp=150–151|ps=none}}

[[Superintendent (police)#United Kingdom|Police Superintendent]] Bob Talbot of the [[Stalybridge]] police division went to Wardle Brook Avenue, accompanied by a [[detective sergeant]]. Wearing a bread deliveryman's overall on top of his uniform, he asked Hindley at the back door if her husband was home. When she denied that she had a husband or that a man was in the house, Talbot identified himself. Hindley led him into the living room, where Brady was lying on a [[Divan (furniture)|divan]], writing to his employer about his ankle injury.{{sfnp|Benfield|1968|p=151}} Talbot explained that he was investigating "an act of violence involving guns" that was reported to have taken place the previous evening.{{sfnp|Topping|1989|pp=120–121|ps=none}} Hindley denied there had been any violence, and allowed police to look around the house. When police asked for the key to the locked spare bedroom, she said it was at her workplace; but after police offered to take her to retrieve it, Brady told her to hand it over. Evans' body was discovered in the bedroom, and Brady was arrested on suspicion of murder.{{sfnp|Topping|1989|pp=120–121|ps=none}} As Brady was getting dressed, he said, "Eddie and I had a row and the situation got out of hand."{{sfnp|Ritchie|1988|p=85|ps=none}}