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16 Minutes: Was The Death of Baby Matthew an Accident or Murder? ~Book Review~

Rebecca Hill
3 min readNov 5, 2021

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16 Minutes Cover from WildBlue Press

16 Minutes is a book that is going to challenge you in so many ways. It is not your normal true crime. You are going to step by step through this case, and get all the information you ever wanted — and more. I am going to start this review out with a warning — there is a lot of content within this book that is hard to stomach. Please be aware of this before starting the book — and keep some Kleenex close.

Now, for this book — I will be honest. It took me a little while to get through reading this one. I had to take it in shorter doses, as the content was so ghastly, you have to be able to absorb and digest what you are reading.
As you are sifting through this book, you are going to run a gambit of emotion, and it will range from anger, shock, horror, and pure heartbreak as you read through.

Review of 16 Minutes

When a fire broke out at the Wise home, there seemed to be no sense of anything else being wrong. A simple fire, which turned out to be arson, but no mention of anyone other than two adults being in the home. As Diane Moore recounts the events and the subsequent investigation, you are going to learn that pure evil truly walks among us.
In the charred remains of what was once a room, there are indications that there…

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Rebecca Hill
Rebecca Hill

Written by Rebecca Hill

Mom, Army Veteran, Sr. Program Coordinator, Editor, History Professor, and Avid Reader.

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