China Arnold, is a Dayton, Ohio woman who on September 8, 2008 was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for murdering her one-month old baby daughter by putting her in a microwave in 2005 At the time of the baby's death, Arnold lived with her four children and then-boyfriend Terrell Talley in a flat at a housing complex. Prosecutors told the court how she put her daughter in the microwave and cooked her to death after an argument with Talley over whether he was the baby's biological father. She did not receive the death penalty as the jury failed to reach a consensus.