PODCAST: Meet W. Jay Abbott, the special agent in charge of Indy's FBI office
Rachel Ellis
Updated on April 05, 2026
SAC W. Jay Abbott spins tales of an interesting FBI career and talks about why he thinks Hoosiers should feel confident that the Delphi murder case will be solved — soon.
Eyewitness News anchor John Stehr recently talked with W. Jay Abbott, the outgoing Special Agent in Charge of the Indianapolis Division of the FBI.
If you think you have a good idea what a 30+ year FBI veteran is like, this conversation will make you think again.
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Jay Abbott has a sense of humor, and he has a lot to say about a career that took him from Washington, D.C. to Paris to El Paso, Texas, back to D.C., to Seattle, and finally to Indianapolis.
He was involved with bringing in the 20th hijacker after 9-11, and the infamous "shoe bomber" (3:00).
Jay Abbott also has some interesting takes on today's political climate and how the FBI is viewed both inside, and outside, the organization. He discusses how President Trump's criticism affects the FBI (12:15).
Abbott spins tales of an interesting FBI career and talks about why he thinks Hoosiers should feel confident that the Delphi murder case will be solved — soon (15:00).
He said, "Whoever that person is, they are already being punished because the FBI does not forget cases and we do not stop — ever. It just gets handed down to the next generation if necessary to continue to work on... It will get resolved and we will find that person and that person is already being punished because everyday that person has to wake up knowing that it could be this morning that we're going to show up at their front door to put handcuffs on them. "
