Buggy testified that he was on the exit ramp where Willard's car was found but left the scene because ''it wasn't in my jurisdiction.''
In a statement to investigators in July 1996, Hutchinson reported spotting an Upper Providence police car alongside Willard's abandoned car on a Blue Route exit ramp as he drove past between 1:45 and 1:50. Hutchinson contends he is being framed by investigators who have reached a dead end in a big murder case.
The prosecution, led by First Deputy District Attorney Daniel McDevitt, contends that Hutchinson's movements on the night of the Willard killing indicate he could not have seen her car when he said he did. It also asserts that an emergency crew from Keystone Quality Transport - and not a local police patroller - was the first on the scene.
But Buggy, testifying as a defense witness and with a grant of immunity from prosecution, disagreed.
``I remember going past, but I don't remember seeing anyone in the vehicle,'' Buggy said. He said he was on the scene just before 1:50, minutes before he arrested a suspect for driving under the influence 2 1/2 miles away. Buggy said he spent no more than five minutes on the ramp.
In his first statement to investigators on Nov. 6, 1996, Buggy said he had seen an ambulance on the ramp by the Willard car. Later, he retracted that version. Yesterday, he testified that he changed his account on the basis of police timetables that indicated he could not have seen the ambulance.
Hutchinson's attorney, Ari S. Moldovsky of Philadelphia, continued yesterday to take aim at the Willard investigation. He focused on a series of radio communications from an emergency crew to a police dispatcher on the night of Willard's killing. On Wednesday, an ambulance driver testified that he waited more than an hour for a state police car to arrive at scene.
