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Influencer won battle to keep ‘disturbing’ details of son's death private as police release distressing new information
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Updated 07:49 11 Aug 2025 GMT+1Published 07:30 11 Aug 2025 GMT+1

Influencer won battle to keep ‘disturbing’ details of son's death private as police release distressing new information

Three-year-old Trigg died in May after falling into the family pool

Jess Battison

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An influencer has won her battle to keep some of the ‘disturbing’ details of her son’s death private.

Police released distressing new information surrounding the case of Emilie Kiser’s three-year-old son, while the mum managed to get two pages of the report redacted.

Trigg died after being found unconscious in the family’s swimming pool at home in Arizona on 12 May. He then spent six days in critical condition before his tragic death on 18 May.

It’s understood that Emilie was out with friends at the time of the incident, with Trigg and his newborn baby brother under the care of their dad, Brady Kiser.

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The family are well known by fans as the mum found fame with her lifestyle and family-focused content on TikTok.

The three-year-old was found in the family swimming pool. (Instagram/@emiliekiser)
The three-year-old was found in the family swimming pool. (Instagram/@emiliekiser)

Police release report on Trigg's death

Released on Friday (8 August), a police report alleges Brady was watching an NBA playoff game between the Knicks and the Celtics and had placed a bet in the lead-up to the drowning.

The dad told police he lost sight of Trigg for about ‘three’ or ‘five’ minutes as he said: “I didn't have a clock, obviously, I don't know the exact time, but it was moments, it wasn't minutes it was moments, it wasn't that he had been out of sight for long.”

The report then reveals that Trigg, who reportedly did not know how to properly swim, but had taken lessons, was ‘in the backyard unsupervised for nine minutes, and in the water for about seven of those minutes’.

Police say Brady insisted he wasn’t on his phone and while the game was on the TV, ‘it’s not where my focus was, it was on my baby’.

He said that the last time he saw the toddler in the back garden through the window, he was walking ‘from that area in the grass up on the elevated portion where the hot tub was at’.

The report says he then went to get a drink, and when he went back to see where Trigg was, he found him in their pool.

Brady told police that he got him out and performed CPR. There’s ‘no evidence’ suggesting the dad saw his son in the pool and failed to act.

“On the contrary, he acted immediately when he saw him, leaving his infant swaddled on the ground in the patio area,” the police report adds.

The young children were in dad Brady's care at the time. (Instagram/@emiliekiser)
The young children were in dad Brady's care at the time. (Instagram/@emiliekiser)

Emilie Kiser's request to judge

Emilie asked a judge to block two pages of the police report with details about Trigg’s death. It’s alleged that those pages contain a moment-by-moment description of police bodycam footage.

Emilie reportedly argued that making these pages public could enable people to make AI video recreations of Trigg’s death.

In the ruling, Judge Christopher Whitten said: “Specific material harm to her and her family outweighs the negligible public interest in those particular portions of the report.

"The narrow redaction of those sections strikes an appropriate balance between transparency and human dignity."

He added that the disclosure would ‘serve no purpose other than satisfying morbid curiosity’.

In a statement shared to E! News, Emilie's lawyer Shannon Clark claimed the redactions ‘do not alter any material facts of the accident’ but instead ‘protect the dignity of a little boy whose memory should reflect the love and light he brought to the world’.

LADbible contacted Brady’s attorney for comment.

Featured Image Credit: Instagram/@emiliekiser

Topics: TikTok, Parenting, Social Media, US News

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. With a specialism in entertainment, she's covered the updates live at major events from The Brits in London to Disney's D23 in California. Jess covers the latest breaking news stories across the UK and the globe as well as interviewing your favourite faces including the likes of Dwayne Johnson, Stephen Graham, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Hemsworth. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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