About IDEF Forensic Institute
Forensic training since 2008, with methods of our own and a team of practicing forensic experts.
The institute
IDEF Forensic Institute is the English-language name of the Instituto Delitológico de Ciencias Forenses y Periciales (IDEF). Since 2008, IDEF has trained forensic specialists, and it is a legal entity in the United States (IDEF LLC, Wyoming) and in Chile.
It has trained relatives of missing persons, rescuers, firefighters, investigators, members of NGOs and police officers from Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico and Spain. Its own methods were presented in Bogotá in 2015 before the Colombian National Police and UNODC, and the academic team linked to the institute includes experts approved by Chilean Courts of Appeal for 2026–2027.
In English, IDEF currently offers the Professional Certificate in Missing Persons Investigation and Search, the training program of the MP-Tracker™ method.
- Legal name
- IDEF LLC
- EIN
- 32-0701556
- Registered address
- 30 N Gould St, Ste R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States
- Teaching since
- 2008
- Contact
- info@idef.institute
Lead instructor: Cristián Alejandro Araos Díaz, psychologist
Author of the MP-Tracker™ protocol and platform, and director of IDEF.
Legal and forensic psychologist, criminal profiler and behavioral analyst. He is the author of the MP-Tracker™ method and the director of the Instituto Delitológico de Ciencias Forenses y Periciales (IDEF LLC), and the author of the books Hegemón, El Minusvalor and Manual de Perfilación Criminal (in Spanish).
At the First International Meeting on Criminal Profiling (Bogotá, October 1–2, 2015) he received a Medal of Honor from DIJIN, the Directorate of Criminal Investigation and INTERPOL of the Colombian National Police, together with recognition from the Colombian National Police and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). He has lectured in Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Panama, Argentina and Spain, and advises police forces, prosecutors' offices and legislators on missing persons and criminalistics.
He teaches forensic psychologists, criminologists, forensic experts, prosecutors and judges, and has worked as a forensic expert in human rights cases and on expert reports for oral trials. He is currently approved as a court expert by Chilean Courts of Appeal for 2026–2027.
Areas of practice
- Legal and forensic psychology: forensic psychological assessment, criminal responsibility.
- Behavioral and criminal analysis: criminological profiling, criminal psychopathy, psychological autopsy.
- Intervention and prevention: suicidology, clinical neuropsychology.
Study the method with its author
Personal mentoring in English throughout the certificate program.