Modern Crime-Solving Methods vs. the Mystery of World War II Deaths DNA-based techniques that have successfully tracked down elusive serial killers may soon be used to help identify thousands of American service members “known but to God.” Laboratory technicians at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware working on DNA identification of remains for the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times April 6, 2021Updated 4:37 p.m. ET South of Rome, an American military cemetery has a grave that is thought to contain a young Army private named Melton Futch. But the white marble marker reads only, “Here rests in honored glory a comrade in arms known but to God.”