Colin Ash-Smith has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 21 years for the murder of schoolgirl Claire Tiltman in 1993.
The milkman attacked the 16-year-old from behind as she took a short cut through an alleyway to a friend's house in Greenhithe, Kent, four days after her birthday.
She was stabbed more than 40 times in the "frenzied attack".
Sentencing Ash-Smith, judge Mr Justice Sweeney said the 46-year-old, who knew his victim from the local British Legion club, had carried out the attack because of the "feeling of power" it gave him.
"This was a premeditated murder. Your intention was to kill. You took a knife to scene for the purpose, and Claire was vulnerable by reason of her circumstances," he said.
The 46-year-old, who was described as being obsessed with knives, chose not to attend Inner London Crown Court for the sentencing.
Two years after killing Ms Tiltman, he launched a second attack on another young woman, Charlotte Barnard, in the same town, leaving her for dead.
She was stabbed 14 times but survived and Ash-Smith was later jailed.
A search of his white Ford Capri also uncovered one half of a school tie which police established had been used in a rape, kidnap and attempted murder in Swanscombe on 21 December 1988.
Ash-Smith kept diaries in which he described his midnight walks looking for victims ans when asked why he carried out the attacks, he said: "I wanted to feel empowered, that I had control over someone, that I wasn't a doormat."
Although he denied any part in Claire's death when he was arrested, detectives continued to examine the similarities with Ash-Smith's other attacks and number of clues, including a prison confession and the fact that he attended Claire's funeral, connected him to the murder.
Claire's parents died before Ash-Smith was brought to justice and police said their deaths made officers more determined to catch him.
The judge told the court Ash-Smith escaped a "life mean life" jail term, despite there being no mitigating factors, because he had to be sentenced on the basis of the law at the time of the killing.
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