We talked for a while and I was starting to wear him down to get him to tell-all. The final statement that pushed him over the hump was “If you don’t tell me about someone and later it is found out that they died from Covid-19 when they could have been saved if they were treated earlier it will turn into a police investigation and you could be charged with manslaughter.”
I have no idea whether or not that statement was correct, but I figured that it might be so I had no qualms in telling him that if it got him to open up.
After a pause where he stared at the ground Upton looked up and said “Now everything I say is confidential, right; all you can do is tell someone to get tested and that I’m not the source.”
“Absolutely,” I replied, because that is the way it is supposed to work.
When he finally did open up he became a regular chatty-Kathy. After he gave me a list of about ten people and his relationship and last contact (the exact date if possible) with each of them, and their contact information to the extent that he knew it, he stopped. I could tell there was more.
“Look, John, I know that you’re hiding something; things will remain confidential so I need to have the information. Remember what I said about a police investigation,” I chided.
Upton sighed then without looking me in the eye he said “I’ve had recent sexual relationships with two women who are married and who I suppose have obviously been in contact with their husbands and kids. One is Martha Elwell, the other is Lisa Montrose.”
Since Upton was looking down he didn’t notice my head snap up from looking at my iPad when he said my wife’s name. Since my surname was different than hers he apparently never even thought that Lisa Montrose’s husband might be Jim Young.
Exercising more restrain than I ever have before in my life I first pretended like I was having an issue with my iPad, turned on my recorder, and then had him repeat what he had just said — which he did. I then proceeded to question him about both women. “How long have you had a sexual relationship with Martha Elwell?” I asked, staring at my iPad.
‘Uh…why is that important?” he dumbly inquired.
“Because establishing the precise date that you were infected is not an exact science and since sexual relations cause Covid-19 to manifest itself differently,” was my deadpan — and lying — reply.
“Since before October of last year when the coronavirus wasn’t even known in China yet — you don’t need more than that, do you?” he replied.
“No, that’s good,” I responded, sweat starting to form under my face shield. I asked him further questions about Martha Elwell and then got to what was most important to me.
“How long have you had a sexual relationship with Lisa Montrose?”
“Since just before Christmas of last year.”
“When was the last time that you had sex with Lisa Montrose?”
‘Five days ago.”
“How many times did you have sex with Lisa Montrose since just before Christmas of last year and now?”
“I…I don’t recall exactly,” Upton replied; “maybe eight or nine times.