An unsealed police report revealed new details into the drowning death of influencer Emilie Kiser’s three-year-old son this past May: Boy’s father was watching NBA game, placing $25 wager on betting app during drowning https://t.co/wKqcibFlTc
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 9, 2025
I won’t lie, reading about this was truly horrific and heartbreaking. If you have kids, maybe skip this post. Mods, because the tweet itself contains a high-level overview, I’m going to stick the rest of the details under a spoiler cut. I hope that’s alright.
ICYMI: this is a follow up to a previous post, Police recommend Brady Kiser (Emilie Kiser’s husband) be charged with abuse after son’s drowning. Emilie Kiser is (was?) a lifestyle/wife/family influencer. She has not been active on social media since her son, Trigg, drowned on May 12, 2025, and was out of the house when he drowned.
[Details, please read with caution]In point form because I can’t write handle writing full paragraphs about this:
- Brady initially told investigators he was busy taking care of his and Emilie’s newborn son
- Brady called the police at 6:41pm, claiming to have lost sight of Trigg for 3 to 5 minutes prior to finding him unconscious in the water
- He initially stated to investigators: “I didn’t have a clock, obviously[.] I don’t know the exact time, but it was moments, it wasn’t minutes, it was moments, it wasn’t that he had been out of sight for long.”
- Surveillance footage revealed that Trigg had instead been unsupervised for at least nine minutes, having entered the backyard at 18:29:42
- He was in the water for seven minutes (from 18:32:15 until 18:39:07)
- Brady found Trigg in the pool at 18:39:00
- While Trigg was drowning, Brady was watching an NBA playoff game (game 4 of the NBA finals between the Knicks and the Celtics)
- Earlier in the evening, Brady had placed a 25$ bet using a sports betting app
- The wager was placed at 5:14pm
- Brady won the wager and was paid out $102.50
- Trigg fell into the water accidentally after tripping and falling while playing with an inflatable chair
- According to the Chandler Police Department, “It is clear Brady’s attention was divided, and he was not watching at all during the critical times mentioned. During two interviews he did not know what was doing before he fell in and did not see struggling him to swim.”
- Brady only noticed Trigg in the water because he looked outside and saw the family dog staring at the pool, saying he had a “poor feeling as soon as I saw it, it was out of the ordinary to see him standing there looking in the water as he was, so I had stood up and I immediately went out there.”
- The game was still on the TV when police arrived
- Brady claimed that Trigg commonly went outside to play, but that he was usually accompanied by an adult
- The investigator told Brady that it was “clear that for ten minutes you didn’t look outside.”
- Brady’s lawyer asked why the investigator said that.
- The investigator wrote, “I told them that [redacted; presumably Trigg] was next to the pool for two minutes and then trying to swim for two more minutes.”
- Brady lowered his head upon hearing this and then claimed that he had only been trying to convey his experience of the events, that he was trying his best to be open with investigators and that he had not been distracted by anything other than his newborn baby, with whom he was busy “connecting.”
- There was no evidence that Brady had seen Trigg drowning and failed to act
- Upon noticing that Trigg was in the pool, he immediately set his swaddled newborn on the ground of the patio area and went to Trigg
- The police submitted a recommendation that Brady be charged with class 4 felony child abuse on the basis that Brady knew the pool net was not in place, that Trigg was alone in the backyard and did not know how to swim, that Brady had left Trigg unsupervised for at least 9 minutes, that Trigg had spent around 7 minutes in the water before being found, and that Brady “did not accurately describe one thing [redacted; presumably Trigg] did after he went outside.”
The Chandler Police Department recommended that Brady be charged with class 4 felony child abuse. However, the Maricopa Attorney’s Office declined to press charges, stating that there was “no likelihood of conviction.”
RS on Twitter, NBC, the Chandler Police Department General Offense Report