Tartaglione, 49, is accused of killing Luna, Urbano Santiago, Miguel Sosa-Luna and Hector Gutierrez on April 11 at a bar in Chester owned at the time by his brother.
The men were from the Middletown area and their whereabouts were unknown for the next eight months until authorities on Dec. 20 dug up their bodies on an Otisville property where Tartaglione had lived. A day earlier, Tartaglione was indicted on charges accusing him of killing them as part of a drug conspiracy involving the sale of five kilograms of cocaine. He could face the death penalty.
Tartaglione's appearance before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas lasted less than five minutes, with Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey saying prosecutors were still awaiting the final autopsy reports and results of ballistics, trace evidence, fingerprint and DNA tests that are underway at the FBI lab in Quantico, Va.