Slaughter of the Innocents is a 1993 thriller film directed by James Glickenhaus and starring Scott Glenn and Jesse Cameron-Glickenhaus with supporting roles from Kevin Sorbo and Armin Shimerman.

In Timberlake, Utah a woman drives home one evening during a storm and barely misses a hooded figure on the side of the road.

Jesse mentions to his father that he has found a potential serial killer after reviewing some crime scene reports which have similarities with the Provo Canyon Massacre five years before with the two murdered girls from the beginning of the film.

Broderick readily listens to his son's theory that the mothers in both cases say that they saw what looked like an old lady wearing a black dress picking something on the side of the road and putting it into a basket right before the bodies were discovered.

He goes to Draper Penitentiary where the man convicted and sentenced to death for the Provo Canyon Massacre, Bobby Martel, is about to be executed.

Broderick and Roxanne consult with Dr. Mort Seger, a forensic pathologist and asks him to compare the pubic hair found at the scene with that of Bobby Martel.

They run a DNA analysis with the FBI's computer increasing the process, but the results will not be finished in time to halt the execution.

Broderick is tasked by the FBI to investigate the case that has now been reopened in light of the DNA evidence proving Martel's innocence.

Jesse has read the files and seen the photos of the crime scene and states that the killer stabbed the girl with a 9-inch hunting knife and removed one of her ribs to take with him.

While outside Jesse notices that the killer's footprints are even and level meaning that he was not running from the crime scene but was calmly walking away.

A woman stops at a gas station with her young daughter, Kristi Collins in the back seat and goes inside to pay.

When he arrives, there is no answer but inside he finds sage hanging from the ceiling and a man, woman, and little girl in black robes along with the ritualistically murdered body of a young boy.

Jesse continues to search for matching crime criteria on his computer while Broderick investigates the house of the cultists who belong to a Moab religious sect.

Jesse meanwhile finds an older police report where two giraffes were stolen from the Salt Lake City Zoo.

He tells his mother he is going to visit his friend for the weekend but instead books a flight to Salt Lake City using his father's credit card.

Jesse goes to the Salt Lake City Zoo and tells a maintenance worker that he knows he is not who he says he is and that he changed his identity after stealing money from a bank he managed and abandoning his family.

Jesse reviews all the items found in Booths' locker including photos of the first victims at the zoo and a scrawled passage on a crumpled bible page.

Jesse accesses his home computer and cross checks the imagery described in the passage with locations near the PO box of Mordecai Booth.

Jesse takes a train to Castle Rock and rents a dirt bike to go to the closed uranium mine.