Na novelização, fica claro que Yoda sabe quem fez:
Obi-Wan stepped over white-armored bodies to kneel beside blaster-burned corpses of children. Tears flowed freely down tracks that hadn't had a chance to dry since he'd first entered the Temple.
"Not even the younglings survived. It looks like they made a stand here."
Yoda's face creased with ancient sadness. "Or trying to flee they were, with some turning back to slow the pursuit."
Obi-Wan turned to another body, an older one, a Jedi fully mature and beyond. Grief punched a gasp from his chest. "Master Yoda—it's the Troll..."
Yoda looked over and nodded bleakly. "Abandon his young students, Cin Drallig would not."
Obi-Wan sank to his knees beside the fallen Jedi. "He was my lightsaber instructor..."
"And his, was I," Yoda said. "Cripple us, grief will, if let it we do."
"I know. But... it's one thing to know a friend is dead, Master Yoda. It's another to find his body..."
"Yes." Yoda moved closer. With his gimer stick, he pointed at a bloodless gash in Drallig's shoulder that had cloven deep into his chest. "Yes, it is. See this, do you? This wound, no blaster could make."
An icy void opened in Obi-Wan's heart. It swallowed his pain and his grief, leaving behind a precariously empty calm.
He whispered, "A lightsaber?"
"Business with the recall beacon, have we still." Yoda pointed with his stick at figures winding toward them among the trees and pools. "Returning, the clones are."
Obi-Wan rose. "I will learn who did this."
"Learn?" Yoda shook his head sadly. "Know already, you do," he said, and hobbled off into the gloom.
O que não é muito claro (pelo menos não em termos absolutos e digeridos naquele exato momento) é exatamente como ele sabia. Mas, ao longo da novelização e dos filmes, a desconfiança de Yoda e o "mau pressentimento sobre isso" em relação a Anakin é muito aparente. Ele sabe do que Anakin é capaz através de sua incapacidade de controlar sua raiva desde que era criança. Ele também sabe que Anakin dominou o sabre de luz a ponto de derrotar facilmente Cin Drallig (o próprio aluno de Yoda) que estava protegendo as crianças. Portanto, não é inteiramente inconcebível que, sabendo que um sabre de luz fez a matança, Yoda juntasse dois e dois e criasse Anakin como o culpado.