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By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Heroes, assault, kidnapping
Monday, Oct. 5 2009 @ 10:31AM
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Martin Rodriguez Guerrero didn't know the boy named after him had been kidnapped
​Martin Rodriguez Guerrero and Tammy Silas, his girlfriend of two years, often discussed having a baby. They worked at a remodeling company in Ardmore, Alabama -- he in construction, she in translating for the Mexican workforce. But for some reason she was unable to give birth.

So Martin wasn't surprised when Tammy began discussing adoption. She'd apparently spent months preparing for the baby's arrival, buying formula and blankets. Martin, not the inquisitive sort, didn't probe too much on how all this was supposed to go down.

When she called to have him pick her up at the airport, saying she'd adopted a baby in Texas, he had no reason to believe it wasn't legit. The boy they would call Martin Jr. was healthy and happy. What he didn't know is that Tammy had stabbed the mother of the newborn eight times in order to kidnap the boy...

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Yair Carillo: Our guess is that Silas began to stalk his mom outside the Nashville WIC office
​The brutal abduction had taken place in Nashville (see original story here). The boy's real name was Yair Carillo, and his mother, Maria Gurrola, was now hospitalized with deep stab wounds and a collapsed lung.

We still don't know how or why Tammy picked Maria as a target. Initial theories indicated that Maria's yard sign exclaiming "It's a Boy" prompted the kidnapping. But True Crime Report has a different thesis: The morning of the abduction, Maria says she went to the Nashville WIC office before stopping by Wal-Mart. Our guess is that Tammy selected her at WIC and then began to stalk her.

WIC, a federal program providing basic necessities like formula to poor women with children, is the perfect place to find a child to abduct. And according to Wal-Mart surveillance tape, a blue Kia seemed to be following Maria that day. The driver of the Kia parked near Maria and waited as she did her shopping, then followed her again out of the parking lot.

Unfortunately for Tammy, Nashville police did a masterful job locating the car. They traced it back to a rental agency at the Nashville airport, then used the cell phone number given to the rental company to track down Tammy. Police also discovered from cell phone records that she had been close to Maria's home at the time of the abduction.

Yair is now safe and sound. Tammy, meanwhile, is looking at a long stretch in the pen. And it's good that the baby boy will never call Martin "dad." When interviewed after his girlfriend's arrest, he seemed less interested in her pending incarceration than in how he'd support himself with only one income.