[1] Berg was born with the name Frederick Darren Muskopf on May 17, 1962 in Ashland, Oregon, and grew up in Grants Pass, about an hour to the northwest.
"When he was a tiny boy, and my dad would be beating on my mother, he would crawl under the bed," said Wendy about Darren.
Darren's grandfather drove for Greyhound Lines, a fact that Berg would frequently tell MTR Western drivers.
In 2006, he announced a campaign to make MTR Western, which at that time had 300 workers and 167 buses in six cities, carbon neutral.
One employee, who spoke to Seattle Met on condition of anonymity, said that Berg would never admit wrongdoing after such outbursts.
[2][4] In 2007, Berg founded GeoGenius, a company based in Seattle that produced travel-related audio and video content for GPS-enabled devices.
[8] According to the Seattle Times in 2011, "Financial scandals have trailed Frederick Darren Berg across the Northwest for more than 25 years — each linked to his unusual lifelong fixation on tour buses.
[2] In December 2017, Berg was discovered missing after having walked away from the minimum security area at USP Atwater.
Blankenship posted photos online, possibly including Berg, in Rio de Janeiro in early 2018, a few weeks after his escape.