‘The Peanut Man’

By Myra Miller on Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Gueydan man remembers legendary round-up of hunters
  • Robert “Bobby” de’Perrodil was just a teenager the morning federal agents descended upon his home to arrest his father in an elaborate sting that ended in the arrest of more than 60 residents from the Gueydan area on charges of selling wild game.
    Robert “Bobby” de’Perrodil was just a teenager the morning federal agents descended upon his home to arrest his father in an elaborate sting that ended in the arrest of more than 60 residents from the Gueydan area on charges of selling wild game.

    By Glenn Quebedeaux Contributing Writer GUEYDAN - It’s been 64 1/2 years, but Robert “Bobby” de’Perrodil remembers the events that unfolded here on May 5, 1961, as if it were yesterday — and how the infamous “Legend of The Peanut Man” became local lore. His memories put a different twist on a tale that garnered national headlines, cast Gueydan in a negative light as a place with little or no …